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robousa

robousa, ~um [ME robous, AN robouse], waste material, refuse, rubble, rubbish. 1259 cariantibus rebbussam ad equandum aream gardini juxta cisternam Ac. Build. Hen. III 352; per quatuor dies circa idem et aream gardini adequandam cum rebbusa iiij sol. ij d. Ib.; 1292 in servicio unius hominis mundantis cameram de rubusio KR Ac 460/29 m. A2; 1325 operarius ‥ portantibus robous’ et petras Ib. 469/8 m. 4; 1364 ~a et putredine Cal. Pl. Mem. Lond. II 2; 1373 operariis mundantibus magnum hostium magne aule ‥ et ~um foras ducentibus et de candelaria terram et robous’ ducentibus KR Ac 469/13; 1397 pro cariagio burres, rubuse, et flyntes empt’ Ac. Man. Coll. Wint.; 1400 ~e pro viis aleiarum gardini elevand’ Ib.; 1430 in stipendio iiij hominum ‥ mundancium domos et turres castri supradicti de stramine rubiso et aliis nocumentis (DL MinAc) Arch. Soc. Derb XI 140; 1446 una cum excariagio rubisi et petrarum post consummacionem operis DL MinAc 8235/508 r. 8.

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