sarpe

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sarpe (plural sarpes)

1. (obsolete) A collar or neck-ring.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xiiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XX:

     sir Launcelot had twelue coursers folowynge hym / and on euery courser sat a yonge gentylman / and alle they were arayed in grene veluet with sarpys of gold about their quarters / and the hors trapped in the same wyse doune to the helys with many ouches y sette with stones and perlys in gold to the nombre of a thowsand

• Asper, Earps, Pears, Peras, RESPA, Rapes, Spear, Spera, apers, apres, après, aprés, as per, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, præs., rapes, reaps, spare, spear

From Latin serpens. Related to sarpant.

sarpe f (plural sarpes)

1. snake

• sarpant
• vivre

sarpe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sarpō

sarpe

1. serpent. snake