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: 1531-1533, 1596
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Gestour, Geistour, -er, n. [ME. gestour (c 1380), OF. gesteur.] A teller of gests; a reciter or minstrel.1531 Bell. Boece I. 165.
He had nane sa familiar to him as fidlaris … and gestouris 1533 Boece vii. xii. 246.
Fyn Makcoul … of quham be gestouris & rymouris … is frequent mencioun amang the vulgare pepill 1533 Ib. ix. xiii. 320 b.
Rymouris, geistouris, bardis, … and sic kynde of men 1596 Dalr. I. 213/8.
Gladlier he hanted … with daunceris … and geisteris, than with noble men
