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Middle English
Etymology
From Old French Carles li magnes. Compare later Charlemagne.
Proper noun
Charlemayn
- Charlemagne
?a. 1425 (c. 1400), John Mandeville, “Of the Temple of Oure Lord; of the Crueltee of Kyng Heroud; of the Mount Syon; of Probatica Piscina, and of Natatorium Syloe”, in P[aul] Hamelius, editor, Mandeville’s Travels, Translated from the French of Jean d’Outremeuse. Edited from MS. Cotton Titus c. XVI, in the British Museum., volume I (Text), London: Published for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., and by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, , and in New York, published 1919, page 54, lines 22–24:And in this temple was Charlemayn whan þat the aungełł brougħte him the prepuce of oure lord Ihesu crist of his Circumcisioun- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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