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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Grainit, Granit, -yt, ppl. a. [ME. greynyd (c 1400).] Of cloth or clothing: Dyed in grain. 1455 Acts II. 43/2.
All er lis sall vse mantillis of brown granyt, opyn befor, furryt 1474 Treas. Acc. I. 28.
iiij elne of granit broun 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. i. 95.
Nixt hir raid in granit violate Twelf damisellis Id. Æn. xii. Prol. 15.
Fresch Aurora … In crammysyn cled and granyt violat 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xxiv.
Of this woll is maid the fine skarlettis, with mony uthir granit and deligat clathis 1627 Brechin Test. IV. 291.
Thrie elnis of grainit violat claytht