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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1542-1633
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Gowan(e, n. Also: govwane, gouan. [Var. of northern Eng. gollan (1538), a name for various yellow flowers.] A daisy. Also attrib. with hill, rig. 1542 Protocol Book of Sir John Cristisone 79.
[The] rig [commonly called] govwane rig 1570 Satirical Poems xv. 5.
Ȝe greinis, grow gray; ȝe gowanis, dune a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xli. 10.
The feildis ouerflouis With gouans that grouis 1633 Master of Works Accounts XXVII. 19.
For leiding fra the gowane hilles to the gaites betuixt the castell ȝet and lambes house end … deid sand
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