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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Outroome, n. [Cf. e.m.E. out-room (1602) an outlying room, one in an out-house, and Outer a.] The outer room (of a building). —1698 Banff Ann. I. 168.
From henceforth there be ane nightly gaurd kept within the outroome of the tolbuith
