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† ˈprime-temps Obs.
Also 5 prime-tens, pryme temps, prymtemps (prymsauns, ? for -tauns).
[ad. OF. prin(s) tans, mod.F. printemps spring, lit. ‘first time’; with prime a. for OF. prin, prim: see tense n.]
Springtime, spring.
c1400Rom. Rose 3373 How he is feers of his chere, At prime temps, Love to manace. Ibid. 4747 Pryme temps, ful of frostes whyte. c1400Sowdone Bab. 965 In the prymsauns of grene vere, Whan floures spryngyn and bygynne. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. xli. (1869) 24 The earthe is of my robes and in prime temps alwey j clothe it. c1445Lydg. Nightingale 11 Fresschly encoragyt, as galantes in prime-tens [rime presence]. 1484Caxton æsop iv. vii, The byrdes..Ioyeful and gladde as the prymtemps came. |