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

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1420, 1500-1539, 1600-1629

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Fald, Fauld, n.2 Also: fawld, fawl. [Northern ME. fald, midl. and southernfold (a 1250), f. folde Fald v.] A fold of cloth, etc.c1420 Wynt. viii. 4877.
Willame off Spens percit a blasowne And throw thre fawld [v.r. faulde, fald] off awbyrchowne
1500 Acts Lords of Council II. 468.
Ane jak with ane fald of mailye
1506–7 Treasurer's Accounts III. 250.
For vij quartaris small cammes to the Kingis fald of mailȝe
1513 Doug. viii. viii. 93.
Thai byd display thar baneris owt of faldis
1539 Treasurer's Accounts VII. 187.
Blak gray to lay betwix the fawlis of the claith of gold
1600-1610 Melvill 569.
A blew traine … in the air, most lyk ane serpent in mony faulds and linkit wimples
1629 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs III. 283.
That it [sc. the plaiding] be presented onli treinched or layed in plyes or faldis

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