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Creance

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Cre´ance    (krē´ans)
n.1.Faith; belief; creed.
2.(Falconry) A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured.
v. i. & t.1.To get on credit; to borrow.


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45) Bernard de Girard, seigneur Du Haillan (1535-1610), the historiographer of Charles IX, alludes to the story of the transformation of the toads into lilies in his De L'Estat et succez des affaires de France (1570), but considers it an "ancienne creance des Francois qui n'est tesmoignee par aucun autheur veritable" (old belief of the French which is accounted for by no true author).
On the evolution of toads in the French Renaissance* by Randall, Michael / Renaissance Quarterly
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