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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1420-1560

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Alb(e, Ab, n. [ME. albe (also aube, awbe), OE. albe, L. alba, sc. tunica or vestis, a white tunic or garment.] An ecclesiastical vestment with sleeves.(a) c1420 Wynt. i. 1062.
Before Sylvestre, the haly Pape, Revestyde weylle in albe and cape
1454 Old Dundee II. 14.
Vestments of claith of gold, with tonakils, albs, and the lave
1495 Reg. Episc. Brechin II. 316.
Eftir the lady mess daily to pass in the albys to the grayf
1504 Treasurer's Accounts II. 291.
For xxiij elne Bertane clath to be thre albes
1510 Stirlings of Keir 293.
A chesabill … , ane alb, a stole
1530 Balmerino and L Chart. ii. 32.
Ane albe maid for the kyrk
1533 Treasurer's Accounts VI. 93.
To be the alb, twa towellis, and the amicce, xvj elnis lynnyng
1560 Reg. S. Trin. 159.
For xl ellis of lynning to mak albis of
(b) 1502 Treasurer's Accounts II. 158.
To the wife … making the Grey Freris abbis and surplis
1516 Fam. Rose 189.
Tua abbis with chesabillis
1529 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 230.
Ane chessable … with stoile, ab, and fannale
1540 Maxwell Mem. I. 409.
Ane ab, ane chesabill, ane amet
c 1555 Crail Ch. Reg. 64.
Twa tunykillis, with abbis, stolis, and fannonis

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