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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: 1375-1586

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Array, Aray, n. Also: arraye, arrey. [ME. aray(e, arai(e, array (14th c.), AF. arai, OF. arei, aroi.]

1. Arrangement, order (of battle).1375 Barb. ii. 246 (in gud aray); vi. 413 (out of aray); xii. 217 (brek array). c1420 Wynt. iv. 152 (in gud aray); viii. 2540 (in sad aray), 4684 (he brak aray). c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix. 1968 (in a gud aray). 1531 Bell. Boece I. 24 (cum to array). c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2023 (beand in arraye). a1578 Pitsc. I. 192/28 (in awfull arrey).

2. Attire, dress, outfit, trappings.a1400 Legends of the Saints xii. 100 (in ane aray). c1400 Troy-bk. i. 284 (with ryche aray). c1420 Wynt. iii. 752 (intyll his best aray), 760 (in fayr array); v. 3889 (aray off ryche purpwre). 1456 Hay II. 128 (with stately array). a1500 Taill of Rauf Coilȝear 480 (that ryall array). c1500-c1512 Dunb. xiv. 9 (so nyce array); xix. 21 (lusty in array). 1513 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 87 (in thar best array bodin for weir). 1551 Edinb. B. Rec. 152 (cled in vyle array). a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS xvi. 15 (ȝour best array); xxi. 49 (thair wantoun vane arrayis).

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