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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: 1591-1638

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Cover claith, cloth, n. [e.m.E. cover cloth (1599).] A cloth used for covering a table, etc. —1591 Edinburgh Testaments XXIII. 209.
My lang meit burd … with the couer clayth to the burde 1633 Elgin Rec. II. 225.
Tuo communioun cupis with tuo table clothis and tuo couer clothis 1638 Elphinstone Mun. 26.
Ane camrok covir claithe sew[it] with gold

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