"sclender" meaning in Middle English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective|altform=1}} sclender
  1. alternative form of sclendre Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: sclendre
    Sense id: en-sclender-enm-adj-xkUJ1cUp Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "english": "His berd was shave as ny as ever he can.\nThe Reeve was a slender choleric man,\nHis beard was shaved as close as ever he can.",
          "roman": "The Reve was a sclendre colerik man,",
          "text": "late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 587-588",
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "english": "‘This makes our heirs to be so scrawny\nAnd feeble that they can not well beget children.’",
          "ref": "late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 3147-3148",
          "roman": "And feble, that they may nat wel engendre.’",
          "text": "‘This maketh that our heires been so sclendre",
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