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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: 1499-1500, 1666

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Bery-, Berry-broune, a. [e.m.E. berrie brounde (1611). Cf. ME. ‘broune as is a bery’ (Chaucer Prol. 207).] Dark brown. —a1500 Golagros and Gawane 551.
Bery broune wes the blonk 1666 Bk. Old Edinb. C. V. 135.
The q[uhi]ch horse … is a berrie broune little beast

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