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Quotation dates: 1375, 1436-1672
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Fustian(e, Fustean(e, n. Also: fustyan, fustane, -ain, -in, -ing. [ME. fustyan, -tian, -tain, fustane (c 1200), OF. fustaine, -aigne.] Fustian.(a) 1375 Exchequer Rolls II. 508.
Per emptionem de xiv ulnis de fustiane 1436 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II. 138.
Quatuor petie de fustiane 1456 Misc. Bann. C. III. 94.
A doublat of fustyan 1491 Treasurer's Accounts I. 188.
For ij elne … of quhyt fustiane to floyt a dowblat of dwn sattin 1503 Ib. II. 215.
For xvj boltis of fustian to lyne the xiiij cuschingis 1517 Reg. Privy S. I. 457/1.
Utheris personis tappis outwith the fredome of our said burgh … fustiane, braid claith and narow 1554 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 201.
That thair be na sic gudis as followis sauld … silkis, worsattis, bunbaseyis, fustianis [etc.] 1586 Edinburgh Testaments XV. 197.
Ane steik of fustiane of deid cullour 1616 Stirling B. Rec. I. 144.
Merchand waris, sic as silk, … fustianes, buckesie(b) 1488 Treasurer's Accounts I. 164.
For xiii elne of fusteane to be doubletis to ix hensmen 1529 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 230.
Ane furnist bedd with … blancatis of fusteane 1566 Fleming Q. Mary 499.
Tuelf ellis of fustean to be ane matt 1587 Acts. III. 507/2.
The saidis strangearis ar cum within this realme to exercise thair craft … in making of searges, growgrams, fusteanis, [etc.] 1616 Edinburgh Testaments XLIX. 185.
Ane steik of beir-corne fusteane(c) 1548 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 136.
Ane dowblott of blak fustane 1552–3 Ib. 279.
Five doublattis of fustain(d) 1631 Edinburgh Testaments LV. 136 b.
Thrie scoir ... elles singel and doubell fustingis 1672 Foulis Acc. Bk. 10.
For 8 ell of fustin
b. attrib. Made of fustian. Also transf. coarse.(1) 1493 Acts Lords of Council 315/1.
A pare of fustiane blankatis 1559 Inverness B. Rec. I. 39.
Ane auld fustean dublet 1562 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 648/2.
Ane pair of fustiane blankcattis, and ane pair of claith blankcattis 1603 Montgomery Mem. 249.
For ane stand of fustean clos 1653 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XXIII. 302.
Two pair of fustiane blanketts containing three breeds(2) 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 43/5.
Thai hed na breyd bot ry caikis and fustean skonnis maid of flour
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