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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1500-1606
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Lichour, -eour, n. Also: lychour, -ure; licher. [ME. (? chiefly north.) lichoure (Rolle), -ore, OF. lichieor, liceour, varr. of lecheor Lechour n.] A lecher, a lecherous man, a sexual profligate. Also to play the licher. a1400 Legends of the Saints ii. 977.
To licheouris & to continent, Till all he prechit his entent a1400 Ib. xxx. 574.
Art thu Sic a lychure waxine now … ? c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 174.
He has bene lychour so lang quhill lost is his natur 1513 Doug. iv. Prol. 164.
Thou auld hasard lichour, fy for schame 15.. Clariodus i. 292.
[You shall] not for lust persew me as ane lichour 1606 Craig ii. 93.
I with my loue haue plaid the licher long
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