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costardus

costardus [ME costard (?) < OF] , (w. pomum or as sb. n.) costard (apple). c1260 reddendo inde annuatim ‥ j ~um ad festum S. Mich. pro omni servicio seculari Cart. Harrold 81; a1300 reddendo ‥ j ~um redditus ad festum S. Mich. pro omnibus serviciis (Kent) AncD A 7201; 1293 iijc pomorum costard’, precium cent’ xij d. KR Ac 353/3 m.14; 1300 (v. costardius); 1315 in viijc gross’ costard’, iiij s. Ib. 376/5; 1316 in mille et iiijc pomorum costard’ Ib. 377/6; 14‥ [ad instar] ~i [cum foliis] (Wills Som) EHR XVIII 163.

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