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

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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1620-1648

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Minim(e, -um(e, Min(n)ome, Menum(e, a. (? F. minime, of a tawny brown colour, appar. f. the colour of the habit of the Minim friars, f. Minime n. a Minim friar: cf. also e.m.E. (1659) minim colour, id.)1620 Edinburgh Testaments L. 284 b.
Ane pair of breikis and doublit of minnome sateine and cloik of minnome taffitie
1626 Ib. LIII. 344 b.
xxxvj ellis of minome baes … fyve ellis of sade greine bais
c 1632 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B. 26.
Of menum claith
c 1632 Ib. 27.
Ane cloik of menume claith
1637 Edinburgh Testaments LVIII. 65.
Ane sute of minume stuff claithes
1642 Ib. LX. 187 b.
Ane stand of minime cloith cloithes
1648 Ib. LXIII. 271 b.
Ane minum four taillit coat

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