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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Logour, -owr, n. [Origin uncertain; ? connected with logger v. (see Loggerand ppl. a.): also in the later dial. of Dumfr. (Jam.).] Some variety of hose: ‘stockings without feet, tied up with garters, and hanging down over the ankles’ (Jam.). —1489 Treas. Acc. I. 149.
vii elne of quhyte to be logouris [sic in MS.] to the King the tyme his leg wes sayre Ib. 158.
For the makin of xviii payre of logouris and schorte hoyse ix s. 1490 Ib. 156.
ix elne of quhyte to be logowris to the duke
