chanvre
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Searchable Lemmata: chanvre (AF).
Alternate Forms: camber, cambre, camvere, camvre, canbre, caneve, canfe, cannve, caumbre, canve, canvre, caunnvre, caunvre, canvere, chambre, chamfre, chanver, chanvere, chanve, chanz, chaumbre, chaumvre, chaumwre, chaunre, chaunve, chaunvre, chenve, chenvert, chemvre, kamme, kanivie, kaumbre.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Raw Material;
hemp or a hempen cloth (cf. Middle English chanve/chaune, or hemp).(1200 - 1300)
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Speculative, From Old French (note the etymology for canvas: from 'Old Northern French' canevas; Central Old French chaneva; OED's designation, 2nd ed., 1989). Ultimately from L cannabis.
WF:
Etym Cog: canvas.
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