Anglo-Normanadj.n.

1719 R. West Inq. Manner of creating Peers 10 It will be found natural to look upon our Anglo-Norman Monarchy to be in Great, what every Manor is in Miniature.

1767 G. Lyttelton Hist. Henry II I. 158 It is from his reign we must date the first regular settlement of the Anglo-Norman constitution.

1865 W. White Eastern Eng. I. xvii. 235 An Anglo-Norman church with its round arches, arcades, and zig-zag mouldings.

1874 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 4) i. ii. 22 The French Archæologists..call our Norman style the Anglo-Norman style.

1974 Eng. Hist. Rev. 89 356 More than a decade after the collapse of 1204 the Anglo-Norman world was still of interest, perhaps still a reality, to these men.

2000 R. Bartlett Eng. under Norman & Angevin Kings i. 11 From 1066 to the 1140s, is the period when there was an Anglo-Norman realm and an Anglo-Norman baronage.

1735 M. Shelton tr. W. Wotton Short View Hickes's Anc. Northern-lang. 30 (note) The Anglo-Norman ing, is changed into ig, by throwing out the n.

1801 G. Ellis Spec. Early Eng. Poets I. ii. 37 The Anglo-Norman jargon was only employed in the commercial intercourse between the conquerors and the conquered.

1811 W. Scott in Sir Tristr. Introd. 81 The Anglo-Norman Rimeur.

1847 F. Madden Laȝamon's Brut I. p. xii The Anglo-Norman metrical chronicle of the Brut.

1923 J. Vising (title) Anglo-Norman Language and Literature.

1960 E. G. Stanley Owl & Nightingale 34 It is..worth noting that similar use of proverbs is made in the Anglo-Norman debate, Chardry's Petit Plet.

2003 Mod. Lang. Rev. 98 453 An indispensable tool for any scholar concerned with Anglo-Norman literature.

1735 M. Shelton tr. W. Wotton Short View Hickes's Anc. Northern-lang. 41 Hickes observes, that all the Charters which shine with guilt Crosses, and painted Images, (or Figures,)..were spurious, and forged by Anglo-Normans long afterwards.

1758 J. Rayner tr. Anc. Dialogue Exchequer i. 33 That division of the country in the time of the Anglo-Saxons, was called among the English shire, which was afterwards called county by the Anglo-Normans.

1877 Mind 2 78 The struggle between the Anglo-Scot of the Lowlands and the Anglo-Norman of England..rendered it almost impossible for the Scottish student, if indeed he existed in those days, to repair to the neighbouring Universities of England.

2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 May 38/1 Successive waves of invasion by Celts, Norsemen, Anglo-Normans, English, have allowed us in Ireland always to lay the blame for the ills that beset us upon the Other.

1818 C. O'Conor Bibliotheca MS Stowensis I. 385 The copy of the Lord's prayer, in Anglo-Norman.

1847 F. Madden Laȝamon's Brut III. 453 Stal, in A[nglo]-Norman, estal.

1884 Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 15 67 The peculiar forms which these words had in Anglo-Norman.

1953 A. J. Bliss in Archivum Linguisticum 5 22 (title) Vowel-quantity in Middle English Borrowings from Anglo-Norman.

2000 Eng. Hist. Rev. 115 378 Written in Anglo-Norman, the account survives on the dorse of a manuscript genealogical roll-chronicle of the kings of England.