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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1438, 1494-1515, 1590

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Leopard, n. Also: leopart, lyoppart, lieppart. [ME. leopard (14th c.), -erde, -art, luperd (14th c.), lepard (13th c.), leupar (13th c.), e.m.E. leopard, OF. leopard, leupard etc., late L. leopardus. Cf. Libbard.]

1. A leopard.?1438 Alex. ii. 11015.
Leopardis, tygris and lyonis
a1500 Henr. Fab. 865.
The [B. Thre] leopardis come with croun of massie gold
a1500 Ib. 886.1494 Loutfut MS. 16 a.
The leopart is  a rycht cruell best and ... is generyt be adultery of lyoppart & the lynesse
1494 Ib.
The armes of Guyenne ar of a lieppart
c1515 Asloan MS I. 302/25.
Bestis of filth as lyonis leopardis vnicornis … figuris hell lawest
c1590 J. Stewart 17/79.
As tender faune … Quhan it persaifs the leopard auans

2. (Only in plur.) Leopard-skins or -furs.1503 Treasurer's Accounts II. 208.
For mantillis of jenettis, contenand iiijc bestis, and foure mantillis of riggis of leopardis to the said goune, and pairt of the leopardis to the goune undirwritin
1503 Ib.
vij mantillis leopardis
1506 Ib. III. 249.
Wellus, to be ane cote to the King … it was lynyt with leopardis giffin be Thomas Lumysden
1506–7 Ib. 253, etc. 1507–8 Ib. IV. 18.
For leopardis that wantit to the said cote
1508 Ib. 25.

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