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: 1500-1512, 1570-1699
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Galland, a. [e.m.E. gall-, galant, ME. galaunt (c 1430), F. galant.] Gallant. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. xix. 6.
Gif I be galland, lusty and blyth 1570 Leslie 71.
Galland and weill trappit horsis, … cumly to se 1587-99 Hume Epistle 294.
Men discreit, … Of galland spreit, braue, trew, and worthie 16.. Hist. Kennedy 25.
He had ewer in his houshald xxiiij galland gentilmenne, doubill horssitt
