A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Houl(l)our(e, n. [ME. houlour, hulour, etc., huler (c 1230), OF. hol(i)er, huler (later also houlleur).] A debaucher, procurer, bawd. —a1400 Leg. S. xliii. 393.
Jubitere Ves the name of a murtherere & of a kyd houlloure [L. stupratoris] Ib. xliv. 226.
The presydent gert til hyme bryng Sere houlouris [L. lenones] & gef byddinge Hir to the bordale to led
