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Quotation dates: 1562, 1616-1700+
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Cape-hous, Caip-hous, n. Also: kaip-hous. [Cape n. 4.] A small erection on the top of a building. 1562 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 648/2.
Ouer kitching … , Nedder kitching … Lairdnar … The cape house [etc.] 1616 Reg. Great S. 556/1.
Rex concessit Jacobo Colvill … cameram nuncupatam the great chalmer cum lie kaip-hous 1633 Master of Works Accounts XXVI. 2.
Fluiring nailles for the brydillis and propes of the caiphous and chimney heid 1672 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XIV. 329.
To … remove and take down the ‘cape house’ from the platforme of the old tower 1715 Coll. Aberd. & B. 250.
It was four story high, having besides (what they call) a capehouse and battlements
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