A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1438-1631
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Covertour, -ture, n. Also: -toure, coverytour, cowartour, cuvertour, coveratour. [ME. covertour (c 1300), OF. covertor.]
1. A covering or cover.?1438 Alex. ii. 1215.
Thow sall neuer haue that paramour Nakit vnder thy coueratour1478 Acts Lords Auditors 65/2.
A futit cop of siluer with a couerytour of the sammyn double gilt 1513 Doug. ix. viii. 140.
Brok was in sondir The covertouris and ordinance of thar scheldis 1533 Boece v. iii. 167 b.
To ly in wynter on the plane without palliouns or covertouris 1539 Inv. Wardrobe 45.
Four coveratouris of grene taffatiis stikkit1565 Treasurer's Accounts XI. 406.
xviij elnis of braid reid to be cuvertouris to the hors 1566 Ib. MS. 83.
Grene say to be ane cannabie and ane cuuertour1542 Inv. Wardrobe 98.
Thre greyn cowartouris for comptarris 1587 Acts III. 507/2.
To exercise thair craft and occupatioun in making of … covertouris of beddis 1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I. 241.
Fyve chearches with thair covertouris 1631 Acts V. 242/2.
To build necessar housses, covertours, stages [etc.] … for the vse of the fishing trade
2. In figurative applications.1567 Satirical Poems iv. 150.
Samson also … Dalila desauit in vnder couertoure 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 167.
The name of his authoritie abused be a few personis, wha hes clad themselfs with the coverture thairof 1593 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs I. 418.
Cover oure … manyfawld inlaikes … with the coverture of thi mercy
