A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1594, 1662
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Parpar, Purpar, n. Sc.varr. of Parpan n.: cf. Parpal(l. In parpar-wall, = Parpan n. 2 a, Parpal(l n. a. —1594 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XXV. 57.
The westirhalf of the galrie to be devydit be ane parpar wall 1662 Glasgow Chart. II. 332.
With … gavelles purpar walles bedis and all pertinentis thairof
