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: 1499-1660
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Browder, Brouder, v. Also: browdour, brouther. [Late ME. browder (1455), broudre, irreg. f. OF. brouder Browd v. Cf. Broder v.] tr. To embroider. (Chiefly in p.p.)(a) a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 417.
Quhair is thy chalmer … With burely bed and bankouris browderit bene? c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxvii. 44.
With quhyt hattis all browderit rycht bravelie 1529 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 230.
Ane chessable of blak velvus browderit … with gold 15.. Clariodus i. 29.
Ane courtche … of gold all browderit bricht 15.. Ib. ii. 1480; etc.
The gudlie entres … All browderit and depaynt with leves bricht 1581 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 982.
Pasmentis of gold to browdour thame [riding socks] with 1596 Montgomery Mem. 235.
Ane gown of claith of siluer, … browderit with cordingis of gold 1610 Edinburgh Testaments XLVI. 121 b.
Ane pand of ane bed browderit 1618 Ib. L. 164 b.
Tuentie Frenche beltis browderit with silk(b) a1585 Maitland Quarto MS ii. 22.
Thair wylie coittis … Broudrit richt braid with pasmentis sewit 1634 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II. 423.
Ane belt of green velves broudered with gold 1618-60 Lithgow Poet. Rem. 203.
Her richest garment [is] … broudred with mercy
