Old Frenchn.adj.

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 60 Vos ki paseis sor mi pour l'amour deix proies por mi. Which is old French, signifying You that pass over me for the love of God pray for me.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 129 I sat down to read it. It was in the old French of Rabelais's time, and for ought I know might have been wrote by him.

1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 176 (note) A piece of silver stamped with a head, which in old French was called, ‘un testion’.

1840 Lady Wilton Art of Needlework xi. 150 The story was..illustrated with short lines in Provençal or Old French.

1950 R. A. Hall Leave your Lang. Alone! x. 153 The entire linguistic systems of Latin, Old French, and Modern French differ so greatly that speakers of the three languages would each have to learn two other languages in order to grasp what the others were saying.

1995 Lit. & Ling. Computing 10 25/2 Alan Hindley and Brian Levy describe their and their students' experiences of teaching and learning Old French with the hypertextually prepared course, medfrench, written with the Cognate Language Teacher software program.

1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 63 The old French word Morelle.

1880 H. Nicol in Academy 24 July 57 We have Old French, Modern French,..and English abbreviations used indiscriminately.

1926 Speculum 1 25 (title) The Compilation of St Albans and the Old-French prose Alexander Romance.

1992 Rev. Eng. Stud. 43 137 Heinemann's subject is the technique of ‘echo’ in Old French Epic, not in itself a topic likely to interest a wide circle of scholars.

2001 Treasure Hunting Feb. 20/2 Its designs depicts a bird of prey standing on a duck, and it carries the Old French inscription Alas ie sv prie in Lombardic lettering.