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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Pouder-, Pulderit, ppl. adj. Also: powder-, poudr-, poudder-, puder-, poulder- and -ed; also Poutherit. [Late ME and e.m.E. powdret (north., 1409), -yd, e.m.E. also powdered, pouldred, f. Pouder v.] a. Of meat or fish: Preserved with salt or the like, cured, corned (Pouder v. 2). b. Ground to powder. c. Decorated with a sprinkling of small marks (Pouder v. 3); spec. of a white fur, with a sprinkling of small pieces of black fur (from ermine tails, legs of black lambs, etc.) sewn in. d. generalised. Of words: Decorated, ornamented, ornate. —a. 1494 Edinb. B. Rec. I 67.
And at thai sell na powderit geis, bot qwik or fresche powlit 1513 Treas. Acc. IV 500.
Powderit beif 1598 Stirling Ant. III 308.
ij fresche salmond … ane powderit salmond 1613 Conv. Burghs II 428.
[To] intertinnie the merchantis of the best sort of the natioun with fresch and poulderit beif … with mustard thairto 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 25 Sept.
For a pouddered keilling 1633 (1711) Sibbald's Orkn. & Shetl. 46.
Their mutton for the most part being poudered, (that is salted) is dryed in … skeesb. 1568 Skeyne Descr. Pest 25.
Vsand thairwith garyophillis and cannell pulderit 1687 Cromartie Corr. I 52.
Ane ownce of quinq. wele puderedc. 1512 Treas. Acc. IV 217.
For ane haill lyning of powderit letteisd. 1643 Fugitive Poetry II xx 9/4.
Such swift ushers with their proud poudred words Prepar'd the way for launces and for swords
