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}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ʃa.pʁɔ̃/"
}
],
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}
{
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"Old French entries with incorrect language header",
"Old French lemmas",
"Old French masculine nouns",
"Old French nouns"
],
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"2": "chape"
},
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}
],
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"form": "chaperon oblique singular or",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"form": "chaperons",
"tags": [
"oblique",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "chaperons",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "chaperon",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
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"name": "fro-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"a hairstyle popular in the Middle Ages"
],
"links": [
[
"hairstyle",
"hairstyle"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"headscarf for a woman"
],
"links": [
[
"headscarf",
"headscarf"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"fro:Falconry"
],
"glosses": [
"hood for a bird of prey"
],
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[
"falconry",
"falconry"
],
[
"hood",
"hood"
],
[
"bird of prey",
"bird of prey"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(falconry) hood for a bird of prey"
],
"topics": [
"falconry",
"hobbies",
"hunting",
"lifestyle"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"type of sailing vessel"
],
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[
"sailing",
"sailing"
],
[
"vessel",
"vessel"
]
]
}
],
"word": "chaperon"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'chaperon oblique singular or', originally 'chaperon oblique singular or m'",
"path": [
"chaperon"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "chaperon",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'chaperon oblique singular or', originally 'chaperon oblique singular or m'",
"path": [
"chaperon"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "chaperon",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
"msg": "suspicious related form tags ['masculine', 'canonical']: 'chaperon oblique singular or' in 'chaperon oblique singular, m (oblique plural chaperons, nominative singular chaperons, nominative plural chaperon)'",
"path": [
"chaperon"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "chaperon",
"trace": ""
}
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