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disparple en · VERB

Etymology

From Old French disparpelier, disparpillier et al., apparently from a late prefixed form of Latin papilio (“butterfly”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To scatter, disperse.
   • ‘Alas,’ seyde Sir Gawayne and Sir Gareth, ‘now ys thys realme holy destroyed and myscheved, and the noble felyshyp of the Rounde Table shall be disparbeled.’ 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:

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