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gardecors (s.xiii)

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The form uardecors is a cross reference to the following entry:

gardecors (s.xiii)

gardcorps,  gardecorps;  uardecors,  wardecors  (widicoloris  TLL ii 60.90)  
  FEW:  *wardôn 17,519b / corpus 2,1213a Gdf:  gardecors 4,223b GdfC: TL: gardecors 4,133 DEAF:  garder (gardecors) G236 DMF:  garde-corps  TLF: OED:  guard-corps n.  MED:  wardecors n.  DMLBS:  wardecorsatum 3730c

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1costumebreech-girdle, belly-band
( MS: s.xiii )  ventrale: wardecors  TLL ii 120.65
( MS: s.xiiiex )  lumbaria: (C) wardecors (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) braylers ou uardecors; (T: s.xii/xiii) braeles; (O: s.xii/xiii) b[r]ays)  TLL ii 50.90
( c.1305; MS: c.1330 )  Cestuy garçoun est vestu de la lyveré sa dame, De une bele cote de larcin e de blame, Si at une coyfe de mult orde fame, Un wardecors de abusion  BOZ Char 412
( 1399; MS: s.xv1 )  Mon chapron, ma cornette, ma robe, mes draps, ma chemise, ma manche, mon chapel, ma barrette, mon gardcorps, mon purpoint  Man lang ANTS 51.25
costumearmourmil.gambeson, padded tunic beneath the coat of mail
( MS: s.xiii/xiv ) toraces: (D*) gambisun vel uardecors (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) gambaysuns; (L: s.xiii) wadesuns)  TLL ii 136.49
2mil.bodyguard, (armed) protection
( MS: s.xiiiex )  (a tower protected by twelve allegorical figures:) Bealté y est conestable [...] Honur i est senechals [...] Curteysie e largesce I sunt adés sanz peresce Ki enpleynt les tresors; Nettez (=purity) i est garde[c]ors, Tant k'au funz de quer marmors (l. m'a mors?) E me ront tote[s] les veines [...]  Rom 15 (Dd.10.31) 243 (87)
( 1318; MS: s.xv )  xxiiij archers a pee, gardecorps  (ed. garde corps) le roi, q'irrount devaunt le roi en cheminant par pays  Ord York 272

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See also:

cors1  garde1  garder1  wardecors 
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