richesse

plural richesses

1. archaicuncountableusuallywealth or riches
2. collectivecountableusuallyA group of martens.

   The harts and hinds in their herds, the boars in their singulars, the skulls of foxes, the richesses of martens, the bevies of roes, the cetes of badgers and the routs of wolves - all came to him more or less as something which you either skinned or flayed and then took home to cook.

   1958, T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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   In reading of the poachers with their cross-bows, the troubles of the purlieu-men with the deer in their corn, and the burlesque decisions at the verderers' court or justice-seat, the fancy goes back to Merry Sherwood and the dun deer in "Robin Hood's Larder "- the foresters pass with hounds in leash, and talk of the chase of the boar and bull, of a rout of wolves or a richesse of martens to be chased; the hays and nets are set in a labyrinth of ambushes, an army of beaters is posted, and "bowmen through the groves glide, for to kill the deer."

   1888 February 4, Charles Elton, The Academy, volume 33, page 72

   Synonyms: richness