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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1614-1662

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Deroy, adj. Also: diroy. [f. Colour-de-roy, Cullour-du-roy.] Purple or tawny. Also deroy culourit.c 1614 Rep. Hist. MSS. I. 137.
Sax yeardis of wroicht deroy culourit saten
1618 Edinburgh Testaments L. 164.
Aucht elnis … deroy cullorit figorit taiffitie
1626 Ib. LIII. 225.
Tua pair silk schankis … ane pair reid, and the vther deroy
1626 Ib. 318 b.
Ane stand of diroy bandit sateine claithis with schankis, gartines, & roisis
1635 Ib. LVII. 242 b.
Item … ellis de roy bischopes satene at xxxvi s. the ell
1662 Edinb. B. Rec. IX. 309.
New coatts of a deroy cullour with blak velvet pasments

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