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Old French
Etymology
Deverbal of conreer (“to prepare; to equip”).
Noun
conroi oblique singular, m (oblique plural conrois, nominative singular conrois, nominative plural conroi)
- In the Middle Ages, a group of five to ten knights who trained and fought together.
- c. 1240, Tristan en prose, ed. 1976, →ISBN, page 160:
Tristanz qui ne mostre mie semblant de couardise, s'adresce vers un conroi de chevaliers qu'il voit venir.- Tristan who showed no signs of cowardice addressed a group of knights that he saw arrive
References
- Stephen Morillo: The Battle of Hastings: sources and interpretations, 1996, →ISBN, p. 87-88
- Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue françoise, Briasson, 1750, vol. 1 p. 421