A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1549, 1629
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Aurora, n. Also: awrora. [ME. aurora (Chaucer), L. aurōra.] The goddess of the dawn; the dawn.a1500 Henr. Fab. 492 (Aurora with hir curcheis gray put vp hir heid). c1500-c1512 Dunb. x. 38 (Aurora hes the cluddis perst); xxxiii. 1 (ȝung Awrora); etc. 1513 Doug. iv. xi. 1 (Aurora heth the erd ourspred with new days licht). 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 38/6 (the messengeiris of the rede aurora). 1629 Mure Sonn. ix. 9 (Awrora's flamming hayre).
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