Obs. [OE. cleofa (clifa, cliofa, clyfa), identical with ON. klefi (klifi):—OTeut. type *kliƀon-.] A room, chamber, sleeping-place, closet.

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c. 825.  Vesp. Psalter xxxv[i]. 4. Unrehtwisnisse smeʓende is in bedcleofan his [Vulg. in cubili suo].

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c. 890.  K. Ælfred, Bæda, III. xxiii. On ðam clifum ðe dracan oneardedon [Isa. xxxv. 7].

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c. 1000.  Ags. Ps. xxxv[i]. 4. On his cliofan.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Colloquy, in Wr.-Wülcker, 98. Hwa ʓefylþ cleafan his [cellaria sua] oþþe hedderna buton cræfte minon?

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter xxxv[i]. 4 (Mätz.). Wickednes thoght he, night and dai, In his kleve þar he lai. Ibid., cxliii[i]. 13. Cleves of þa full or yhit [Vulg. promptuaria].

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c. 1300.  Havelok, 557. Sone he caste him on his bac, Ant bar him hom to hise cleue.

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  Cleve, clevien, clevy, obs. ff. CLEAVE v.

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