envirun
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Old French[edit]
Adverb[edit]
envirun
- Anglo-Norman form of environ (“around”)
- c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland[1], lines 10–13:
- Li reis Marsilie esteit en Sarraguce. / Alez en est en un verger suz l'umbre; / Sur un perrun de marbre bloi se culchet, / Envirun lui plus de vint milie humes.
- The King Marsile was in Zaragoza. Arrived in a garden beneath the shade, he lays down on a large blonde [or blue] marble rock, around him more than twenty thousand man.