Obs. Also 4 soiur, 4–5 soiour(e; 5 surioure. [a. OF. sojur, sujur, etc. (later sejor, sejour, mod.F. séjour SÉJOUR), shortened form of sujurn SOJOURN sb.] Sojourn.
13[?]. Sir Beues, 3435. Þanne anon, wiþ oute soiur, A wente to þat emperur.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 274. Þe Scottis þat were with inne … Þe Baliol suld þam wynne out of þat soioure.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxix. (Placidas), 721. In þe sammyne toure, quhare his wif mad surioure.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 4282. The which is shette there in the tour, Fulle longe to holde there sojour.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 246. Skarsly thre monethys he holdith heer sojour.
c. 1450. Merlin, xxii. 398. The kynge Ban and the kynge Bohors were nothinge at soiour.
