A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1420-1436, 1559
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Parur, -our, n. [Late ME. and e.m.E. parowre (Prompt. Parv.), -ure (1449–50), parrer (1527), an ornament for an alb, etc. (obs. in this sense after 1527), med. L. parura, f. L. parāre to prepare, make ready. Cf. also Parrok n.2] An ornamental trimming for an ecclesiastical vestment. —c1420 Wynt. ix. 596.
Wyth a prestis vestment hale … Albis wyth parurys [C. parouris] to tha lyk Wyth stole and fannowne lyk to tha 1559 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. lxxxix.
4 tunicks, 3 stols … 5 amites with their paruris [ed. paruts] of cloath of gold —1436 Ib. II. 140.]
[Octo petie de paruris siue albis
