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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: 1501-1575, 1643

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Bressale, Bres(s)ell, n. [e.m.E. bresill, bresyle. In Sc. usually Brissell.] Brazil; brazil-wood. Also attrib.1501 Treasurer's Accounts II. 64.
For half ane pund bresell 1542 Acts & Decr. I. 141.
Ane ganging staf of bressale 1575 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 658/1.
For ane wand of bressell 1643 Edinburgh Testaments LX. 239 b.
Tuentie bressell stalfes

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