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Quotation dates: 1526-1533
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Hoff, Hoif(f, n. Also: hoyff. [OE. hof, house, hall. Cf. Arthuris hufe.] Julius hof, the name (according to Boece) given to a round building formerly standing near Carron. — 1526 Boethius Hist. iii. (1575) 34.
Hancque [domum] Iulis Hoff, id est, Inlij aulam seu curiam; … ab incolis exinde appellatam 1531 Bell. Boece I. 81.
Otheris sayis, he usit this hous as his tent, … and, for that caus it was callit Iulius Hoif [M. Hoyff] 1533 Boece iii. vi. 98 b.
This hous … had to name Iulis hoff als mekill to say as the hall or clois of Iulius
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