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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1637-1648
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Cors-claith, -clo(a)th, n. [e.m.E. crosse-cloth (1580), -cloath.] A linen cloth worn across the forehead. — 1637 Edinburgh Testaments LVIII. 59.
Sex parlit cors claithes 1646 Ib. LXII. 265 b.
Twa pairlit biginots, twa pairlit corsclothes 1648 Ib. LXIV. 80.
Ten cors cloaths pearlit and plaine
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