A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1558-1598
[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
Masking, vbl. n.2 Also: maskin, -yn(e, -en(e, -eine. [e.m.E. maskyng(e (1542), -ing(e, masquing, f. mask, masque v.]
1. The action of taking part in a masque or masquerade.1558-66 Knox II. 287. 1558-66 Ib. 314, 319.
In ferses, in masking and in other prodigalities fain wold fooles have counterfooted France 1572 Sempill Sat. P. xxxviii. 12.
Baith tressonabill murtheris the ane and the vther: I go not in masking mair with the Quene Mother 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III. 363 b.
Counterfute perlis for masking 1578 Inv. Wardrobe 237.
Silver claith and uther geir meit for maskene a1598 Ferg. Prov. MS. No. 456.
God send us better handsell nor fart at the masking
b. Comb. with claithis (cleis(e); garmentis, quaiffis, visouris.(1) 1561–2 Treasurer's Accounts XI. 103.
Reid and quhite taffeteis to be maskin claithis 1569 Inv. Q. Mary 179.
The inventareis of the buikis, ornamentis and maskyn cleis 1569 Ib. 185.
Maskyne cleise 1569 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 672/1.
Maskeine cleis 1578 Inv. Wardrobe 237. 1580–1 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 35.
Aucht eln of quhyit sating to be ane slip to his maiesties masking claithis 1580–1 Ib. 362.(2) 1578 Inv. Wardrobe 237.
Fyve masking garmentis of crammosie satine 1578 Ib.
Fyve masking quaiffis 1578 Ib. 238.
Tua dussane and ane half of masking visouris
c. In contemptuous reference to the Mass. Attrib. with goods.1559 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 73.
The said bishopp with his masking goods, cros, capp and miter … sett up their idolatrous messe
2. concr. a. A costume for masquing. b. A masquerade, disguising, mumming.a. 1578 Inv. Wardrobe 237.
Sex maskenis of the same pairt of thame uncompleitb. 1594 Dundee B. Ct. in Mill Mediæval Plays 174.
The actis maid anent drunkardis royatus bankates … nicht walkers maskingis and gysingis 1597 Dundee B. Ct. in Mill Mediæval Plays 174.
The auld actis … anent nychtwalkeris danseris vseris of masking(is) & gysingis
