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Quotation dates: 1399-1400
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Turoyn, n. [e.m.E. Turon (1568) the city of Tours.] A person from Tours. —a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxiii 879.
Of hyme Gregor the Turoyn [L. Turonensis] sais A merwale fel in his days
