"ther aboute" meaning in Middle English

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Adverb

Head templates: {{head|enm|adverb}} ther aboute
  1. thereabout: about that, concerning that
    Sense id: en-ther_aboute-enm-adv-8fY5yAJH Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Sompners Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xlvi, recto:",
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