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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: 1503-1583

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Coppar(e, n. [f. Cop n.1 Cf. Copper n.2] A cupbearer; a keeper of cups.1503 Treasurer's Accounts II. 312.
[For hose] to Alexander Stevinson [etc.] … coppars
1522 Rep. Mar & Kellie MSS. 12.
There sall be with the Kings Grace … ane coppar, ane carver [etc.]
1528 Lynd. Dreme 21.
I haue … Bene … sumtyme seware, coppare, and caruoure
1542 Treasurer's Accounts VIII. 117.
To Iames Andersoun, coppar, for his loveray clathis v ellis cullour du roy
1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 104.
Thair servit the quenis majestie, the erle of Huntlie, carvoure, the erle of Murray, coppar [etc.]
1583 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 130.
To tua sewaris, tua copparis, tua carvouris

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