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† turtur Obs.
Forms: 1, 4–5 turtur, (3 gen. turtres), 4–7 turture, 5–6 -our, 6 -or.
[In OE. direct from L.; cf. OHG. turtur (Notker), OIcel. turturi. In ME. partly a. OF. turtre, tortre, tourtre, tourte, mod.F. tourtre; = Pr. tortre, It. tortore, -ora, OSp. tortora (Sp. tortola); all representing L. turtur-em, turtur, app. an echoic name, imitating the cooing of the dove.]
= turtle n.1
c825Vesp. Psalter lxxxiii. 4 [lxxxiv. 3] Speara ᵹemoeted him hus & turtur nest hwer ᵹesettað briddas his. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Luke ii. 24 Þætte sealdon..tuoe turturas vel tuoᵹe birdas culfras. 971Blickl. Hom. 23 Tweᵹen culfran briddas..& tweᵹen turturan ᵹemæccan. c1220Bestiary 694 In boke is ðe turtres lif Writen o rime. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxiv. (Alexis) 231 Þane scho sad,..Þat but mak ay suld scho dwel As turtur. 1382Wyclif Luke ii. 24 A peyre of turtris [1388 turturis]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xxxv. (Bodl. MS.), The Turture is a semple bridde. c1440Pallad. on Husb. i. 556 With whete & milk in this thi turturs fede. c1450Holland Howlat 127 The Turtour trewest, Ferme, faithfull and fast. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxiv. 37 Swete gentill turtour, quhair is ȝour pete went? 1508― Tua Mariit Wemen 262 And be as turtoris in your talk,..Be dragonis baitht and dowis, ay in double forme. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. Ad Sect. v. 81 The turtures..being an oblation.
attrib.c1425Cursor M. 11304 (Trin.) And elles who þat myȝte not so Shulde offer turtur doufes two. |