indruticans

indruticans [cf. perh. Ir. drúth = wanton, unchaste, a harlot, whore; Prov. drut = beloved v. TLL, Anglia XXVI 310ff], ? flaunting like a whore (in), luxuriously adorned (with). ista stolidis ornamentorum pompis ~ans [Giles: infruticans] adinstar illius mulieris aures calice prostibuli poculum letiferum propinantis [Apoc. xvii 4] Aldh. VirgP 17 (cf. ib. gl.: ticgende, luxurians. broddiende, tolcetende vel fleardiende vel brottetende;; GlC I 77: wraestende; WW 419: 10‥ wraestende oððe wlancende).

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