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"Middle English terms borrowed from Old French",
"Middle English terms derived from Latin",
"Middle English terms derived from Old French",
"Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Middle English verbs",
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"4": "",
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},
"expansion": "Old French fret",
"name": "bor"
},
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{
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"2": "la",
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],
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"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
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"categories": [
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],
"glosses": [
"A fee (usually paid to secure peace)."
],
"links": [
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],
[
"secure",
"secure#English"
],
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"peace",
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],
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"(rare) A fee (usually paid to secure peace)."
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"ipa": "/frɛt/"
}
],
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{
"word": "frett"
},
{
"word": "frette"
}
],
"word": "fret"
}
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"extra": "to decorate",
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"Alternative form of freten (“to decorate”)"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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