A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pantoffil, -offyl(l, -uiffil, n. Plur. also pantuflis, pantfollis. [e.m.E. pantofle (1487), pantouffle (1579), F. pantoufle (1489 in Hatz.-Darm.).] A slipper, perh. some particular type of slipper. Appar. obsol. in Sc. after c 1520. In plur. also without inflection. —1494 Treas. Acc. I. 224.
To Home the cordinare for schone, brodykininis and pantuiffillis 1497 Ib. 334.
For ane par of Franch pantuflis viij s. 1497 Halyb. 132.
For pantoffyll and schon 1499 Ib. 145.
To by pantoffylis and other smal ger 1517 Treas. Acc. V. 159.
Pantfollis 1522 Ib. 196.
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