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livre

noun

LanguageOld French

Meaning
  1. book (collection of sheets of paper in a specific order)
  2. book
  3. A collection of pages bound together, often containing knowledge or stories.
Examples

si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasser choses de grandisme vaillance […] por acroistre son pooir […] i met il les plus chieres choses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience

Just like the lord, who wishes to accumulate very valuable things in a tiny place […] in order to increase his power, […] puts there—according to his good intention—the dearest things and the most precious jewels he can, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge

Part of speechnoun

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