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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Cram(m)asy, -esy, -osy, a. and n. Also: cremosi, -esy(e; cram(m)asie, -asé, crammacy, cramasay, crommassie; crammes(s)ie, -essy, -esé, cramesie, -essé; crammys(s)é, -isy, cramyssy, -issie, kramisei; cram(m)osie, -osye; crambassie, -essie; cramsie. [OF. crameisi, later cramoisi, early Ital. cremesi. Cf. late ME. crymysy (1480).]
1. adj. Crimson. Usually of satin or velvet. a. Placed after the noun.1436 Exch. R. IV. 679.
Pro decem et octo ulnis, mensure Scoticane, satini cremosi 1473 Treas. Acc. I. 30.
v elne of satyne crammacy 1483 Acta Aud. *112/1.
ij elne and a half of satyn crammasy 1489 Treas. Acc. I. 141.
For thre elne j quartar of sattin crammese 1501 Ib. II. 31.
For iij elne satin cremesy to be ane doublat to the King c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxvii. 13.
To beir the paill of veluet cramase Abone hir heid 1546 Lynd. Trag. Card. Prol. 21.
In rayment reid … Off vellot, and of saityng crammosie 15.. Clar. ii. 1897.
Sex fair gounis of velvot cramosie
b. Preceding the noun.(a) 1473 Treas. Acc. I. 15.
For graith to a doublat of red crammacy satin 1474 Ib. 26.
j quarter of rede crammasy vellus for the couering of the litil bering swerd 1531–2 Ib. VI. 22.
iij quartaris crammasy satyn to be ane corse to the said chesaple c 1556 Invent. Q. Mary p. xiii.
Ane cott of sad cramasy velvott … reschit all our with gold 1564 Prot. Bk. T. Johnsoun 138.
Ane cott of crammase welwat 1591 Misc. Spald. C. III. 160.
Ten pair of … hingers befoir the altars, of fyne crommassie veluot 1647 Edinb. Test. LXIII. 51.
Ane bunch of louping; some cramasie waltings 1676 Red Bk. Grandtully II. 231.
Ane bed, to be of dameis, … or ells of cramasie velueit(b) 1503 Treas. Acc. II. 203.
For ane elne lynnyne to the platis uptaking of the crammesy cote xiiij s. 1511–2 Ib. IV. 235.
To be hyme ane doublet chekkert, v quartaris cramesy satyne and v quartaris blak satyne 1529 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 230.
Ane double[t] of crammesy satyne c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus i. 91.
His hugtoun was of crammesie veluet 1578 Edinb. Test. VI. 110.
Ane siluer belt of crammesie buird 1587 Treas. Acc. MS. 116.
Reid crammessie freis to lyne thair cloik breistis(c) 1489 Treas. Acc. I. 136.
For vij quartaris of crammyse veluus 1498 Halyb. 149.
Send with hym in Scotland a stek cramyssy vellus 1524 Reg. Privy S. I. 494.
Ane dowblat of crammisy satin, ane pair of hois of scarlot 1632 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. iii. 235.
Ane petticott of cramissie velvot 1649 Wemyss Chart. 231.
My kramisei satin peitikot(d) 1559 St. Giles Chart. p. cvii.
The sacrament clayth … with the pendicle of reid crammosye welwote 1561 Inv. W. Mary 30.
Thre single pandis … freinyeit with … crammosy silk 1562 Ib. 50.
Thre curtenis of crammosie dames 1566 Treas. Acc. XI. 503.
iiij unce of practikis of reid crammosie silk and silver to the collet 1590 Treas. Acc. MS. 198.
Reid cramosie sating to the bonnet of hir maiesties croun 1640 Black Bk. Taymouth 349.
Great cramosie velvott cuschiounes for the kirk(e) c1590 J. Stewart 49/48.
Lyk … cramsie silk in satine quhyt and clene Ib. 136/13.
Sum purpour fyn, and sum of cramsie hew(f) 1612 McKay Kilmarnock 308.
Ane stand of stampit crambassie vorset courteinis 1620 Edinb. Test. L. 352 b.
Fyve scoir tua elnis crambessie sateines
2. n. Crimson cloth.c1409-1436 Kingis Q. cix.]
[As like ȝe bene, as … sek-cloth is vnto fyne cremesye 1474 Treas. Acc. I. 32.
Rede crammacy … to covir hire bonatis of tyre 1488 Ib. 83.
A belt of crammasy hernessit with gold 1503 Ib. II. 204.
For vj elne braid rede crammesy colourit, to be coviris for the Kingis hors 1535 Stewart 51830.
Ane chyre … couerit weill with crammasy rycht fyne 15.. Clar. v. 1871.
Ane goune of gudlie hewit cramosie 1576 Oppress. Orkney 72.
Ane dublitt of cramesie 1584 Edinb. Test. XIV. 132 b.
Ane pund … satyne pasmentis & cordounes reid crammosie
