<span class="searchmatch">estoit</span> third-person singular imperfect indicative of estre était (Modern French) <span class="searchmatch">estoit</span> third-person singular imperfect indicative of estre <span class="searchmatch">estoit</span> third-person...
(plural étaits) the state of something Était, the State (political entity) <span class="searchmatch">estoit</span> (obsolete) étoit (obsolete) IPA(key): /e.tɛ/ Rhymes: -ɛ était third-person...
subjunctive of encoirar encoires still c. 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques: l'enfant <span class="searchmatch">estoit</span> encoires jeune assés the child was still quite young French: encore...
(nominative singular of enfant) Circa 1250, Philippe Mouskes, Chroniques rimées, line 17802, published 1838 Li enfés contre lui <span class="searchmatch">estoit</span> The child was against him...
to excess Étienne Pasquier (1529-1615), Pourparler du Prince Alexandre <span class="searchmatch">estoit</span> bon coutumier de se forboire Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne...
1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 39: se assist sur une pierre qui <span class="searchmatch">estoit</span> emmy le puys he sat down on a rock that was in the middle of the well French:...
1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide: De tant come ele l'ot veü, Que plains <span class="searchmatch">estoit</span> de felenie. (please add an English translation of this quotation)...
where bodies are interred) c. 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès: Mes clos <span class="searchmatch">estoit</span> tot anviron li cemetires de haut mur But the cemetery was enclosed all around...
Pantagruel: mais, devant que partir, fut adverty que grosse et enorme cloche <span class="searchmatch">estoit</span> à Sainct Aignan but, before leaving, he was told that a massive and enormous...
Essais, book II, chapter 34: Ces pauvres gens ne sçavoyent pas combien il <span class="searchmatch">estoit</span> excellent mesnager du temps These poor people didn't know to what extent...