Talk:plage
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- (geography, obsolete) a region; country
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Man of Lawes 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:
- The plages of the north.
Removed / moved to Middle English by Astova. J3133 (talk) 21:06, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- OED has three post-1500 cites. Unsearchable in EEBO thanks to everyone spelling "plague" like this. Luckily the OED cites come from the public-domain NED: [1] so can be copied from there. This, that and the other (talk) 09:36, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- Cited and improved the definition. This, that and the other (talk) 03:30, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
RFV-passed This, that and the other (talk) 11:42, 8 April 2022 (UTC)