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targe1 (s.xii2/4)

targe1 (s.xii2/4)

tarche  (tarce (l. darte?) );
pl. targis  
  FEW:  *targa 17,314b Gdf: GdfC:  targe 10,744b TL: targe 10,113 DEAF:  targe 1  DMF:  targe  TLF:  targe  OED:  targe n.  MED:  targe n.1  DMLBS:  targia 3374a

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1armourmil.targe, lightweight shield
( MS: s.xii2/4 ) E Guineman justet a un rei leutice, Tute li freint la targe ki est flurie  Roland 3361
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 ) Lusent cil helme a or e les bruines saffrees, E cil escu burny e les targes dorrees  Rom Chev ANTS 2741
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim ) Grant colp li done en la targe listé  Gui War 4047
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 ) archer ou arblaste ou ome a pié ke porte grant targe  vegetius2 7.18
( 1331 ) come le arblasters porta son couverture de paves, q'est dist targes, par dela qant les arblastes iront [...]  Arms and Armour1 79.41
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 ) si est assavoir que l’appellant et deffendant se pourront armer aussi seurement sur leur corps comme bon leur semblera, et avoir targe et pavois dedens les lices, pour ce que ce n'est que armure  Blk Bk Adm 314
2herald.matrix or seal bearing a shield of arms
( 1323; MS: s.xv ) toutz lez ministrez [...] soient [...] grevement punitz, et lez nouns de tiels et lour targe liverez as tresorer  Ord York 281
herald.lawname used for the king's privy seal during the reigns of Edward I, II and III
( 1307 ) come le roy lui avoit maundé par bref de sus sa targe  King’s Bench iii 195
( 1314-15 ) lour lettres assellez de la targe  Rot Parl1 i 306
( 1334 ) le roi fait seisir en sa mayn la dite chapele par sa letre desoutz sa tarche  Rot Parl1 ii 83
3weapons(presumably in error and possibly a misreading of ‘darte’) dart, spear
( MS: s.xiii ) in nube telorum (gloss: tarces) (l. dartes?) (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) dars )  TLL i 184.71 and ii 122.71

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