A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1421, 1494-1614
[0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
Cram(m)esyn(e, a. and n. Also: crammysyn, -in, cramesen, -osin, cramsin; cremysyn. [e.m.E. and ME. cramysin, -oysin, earlier cremesyn (c 1440), early Sp. cremesin, It. cremesino: cf. Cram(m)asy,a. and n.] = Cram(m)asy.1421 Douglas Chart. 57.
A dowblet of rede sattyne cramesyne 1494 Treasurer's Accounts I. 225.
[Five] quarteris of crammesyn satyn 1513 Doug. xii. Prol. 15.
Fresch Aurora … In crammysyn cled and granyt violat 1516 State P. (Reg. H.) No. 22.
A pare of slevis of cloth of gold lyned with cremysyn satten 1561 Invent. Q. Mary 18.
A claith of estait … [partit] equalie in breadis of claith of gold and cramosin satine 1602 Colville Parænese 108.
I did see a voman sitt vpon a beast of coccin or cramsin colour c 1614 Laing MSS. I. 137.
Ane gray baiver hait withe ane imbrowderit string of cramesen cyperis
