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estoire
estoire
Old French
Noun
estoire f (oblique plural estoires, nominative singular estoire, nominative plural estoires)
- history
- circa 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:
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La senestre, selonc l'estoire,
senefie la vainne gloire
qui vint de fause ypocrisie.
Et la destre, que senefie ?
Charité, qui de sa bone oevre
pas ne se vante, ençois la coevre[.]- The left, according to history
Represents vainglory
Which comes from false hypocrisy
And the right, what does that represent?
Charity, which does not
boast about its good work
- The left, according to history
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La senestre, selonc l'estoire,
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- story; tale
Portuguese
Verb
estoire