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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1420-1525
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Cors-kyrk, -kirk, n. [Cors n.2 8.] A transept; a church occupying a transept. c1420 Wynt. ix. 565.
All the treyne werk of the qwere, … Off the corskyrk the ilys twa [etc.] c1420 Ib. 572. 1456 Peebles B. Rec. 116.
[They] gert the sayd frer John Jamson swer … that he swld noch geyf na bud to na man of the Cors Kyrk gud 1488 Treasurer's Accounts I. 98.
To the King, to offir in the Cors Kyrk of Pablis, ane vnicorn 1525 Misc. Bann. C. III. 108.
I leife to Sanct Magnus Kyrk in Tyngvell the twa part of my blak welwos cote, and the thrid parte … to the Cors Kyrk in Dynrosnes
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