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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1615

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Quatorziem, n. [Appar. altered f. e.m.E. quatorzain (1583), F. quatorzaine.] A piece of verse in fourteen lines. —1615 in The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie (S.T.S. 9–11) Introd. li.
The Cherrie and the Slae … Newly altered, perfyted and divided into 114 quatorziems

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