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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1499-1600, 1699
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Coule, Cowle, n. Also: coull (koull), cowll, cowill, cowal; cule; cull. [ME. cowle, couel, cule, etc., OE. cuᵹle, cuᵹele.] A cowl.(a) a1500 Henr. Fab. 672.
Ȝour bair feit, and ȝour russat coule of gray 1506 Treasurer's Accounts III. 287.
For ane coule to ane Gray frere 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xxxviii.
Oftimes are sene … fische, with coulis hinging ouir thair hedis, like monkis 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 163/25.
Change ȝour sperutual habitis, bayth coulis and syde gounis, in steil iakkis 1600 Hamilton Facile Tr. 440.
Frere Ihone Craig, wha cust of his coule, gangand throw ane forrest in Italie 1699 Edinburgh Testaments LXXX. 356.
Ane cap or coull, ane old crap stringfig. 1583 Sempill Sat. P. xlv. Prol. 16.
Thir are the propheitis, … Coverit with coule of clockit holines(b) c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5869.
For cowlis blak, gray, nor begaird, Ȝe sall that day get no rewaird c1552 Ib. 5794.
Papis, … With mony one cowle and clyppit crown a1540 Freiris Berwik 532.
Pull thy cowll doun owttour thy face c1500-c1512 Dunb. xlix. 12 (B).
As feind in fratour Vndir a cowle c1500-c1512 Ib. lx. 28.
Sum causles clekis till him ane cowll 1540 Lynd. Sat. 4271.
I knaw that cowle [B. cowill] and skaplarie Genners mair hait nor charitie(c) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxi. 671.
With that scho kest the cule away, … & raf hyre kyrtil(d) a1578 Pitsc. II. 144/2.
Thair durst nocht … ane bischope weir ane nwikit bonnett nor ane freir, monk or channon weir ane cull
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