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vousure (s.xii3/4)
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vousure (s.xii3/4)

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vousceure,  vousore,  vousour;  vaucer,  vouser,  vousure,  voussure;  vousour;  vowser  (vousteure,  vouture (l. vouçure)  Purg S Pat second anon 148,  wousur,  woysour)  

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1archit.voussoir, wedge-shaped stone (for building an arch): 
( MS: s.xiv ) arcugerium (vehitur super arcos): proprie gallice appellatur wousur  TLL ii 155.33
( 1383 )  [...] faire une novelle gatehouse [...] remuer les vowsers, jambes et barbicans illeoqes  Build salz 463
2arch: 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  enginnurs Ki fund les fundementz des murs, Vousures e pavementz  S Aub 403r
3vault, arched roof: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Desur la vousure sistrent ly oiseaus  Rom Chev ANTS 4284
( MS: s.xiv ) inbule, -arum: gallice woysur  TLL ii 61
4vault (of heaven): 
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  De li prent le ciel sa vousure Et l'arc du ciel sa portreture  Ross ANTS 675
5vault, vaulted room or cellar: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  Lors comanda Nero de norrir la reine et l'enclost en une vousteure (l. vousceure) de piere  TREVET Cron1 130.21
a vousure
arched, vaulted: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Ne seit s'ele (= figure) est geteisce ou a vousure  Rom Chev ANTS 5397
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