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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1599
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Nocturn(e, a. [f. as Nocturne,n.: also e.m.E. (1636).] In verse: Nocturnal. — 15.. Dunb. App. xi. 26.
We may nocht in this vale of bale abyd Ourdirkit with the sable clud nocturn 15.. Clariodus i. 775.
The sune … in his nocturne mantill did cheroude c1590 J. Stewart II. 43/25.
As the nocturne beams quhilk dois appeir But rest ay reilling throch the glansing sky
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