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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.

Crose-gaird, -guard, variants of Cors-gard. —1569-73 Bann. Memor. 112.
The watch of the stiple sending one of the croseguard Ib.
They … meiting with the croseguard 1580 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 187.
[The council] ordaynis twa crosegairdis to be sett betwix the trone and croce

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