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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quhet(e)-bred(e, -breide, Quheit-breid, n. Also: quheitt-, queyt-, wheit-; quheat-, wheat- and -braid, -bread. [ME and e.m.E. whete bred (Piers Plowman), wheate bread (1552).] Bread made from wheat-meal or -flour, wheaten bread. b. A loaf of this. 1456 Hay II 136/12.
The man may nocht be with grete payn seke-ryf that etis gude quhete brede Ib. 137/8.
The sutil metis engenderis gude blude … as clene quhete brede [etc.] a1500 Colk. Sow ii 162.
Thow sall haif … Quheit breid and reme conseruit for my self 1519 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 54.
That na man to us baxtery of quhet bred bot freman and thair wyffis 1526–7 Acta Conc. MS XXXVII 24.
Quhete breide and bakin mete 1529 Edinb. B. Rec. II 17.
That the lang fage of quheit breid … be guid and sufficient stuf … and at thai keip the wecht and pais of the ij d. laif and iiij penny laif of quheit breid of the wecht of Leith 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 301.
Quheit bread 1583 St. A. Baxter Bks. 34.
For handling or virking of ony aitt braid, quheit braid [etc.] 1589 Edinb. B. Rec. V 12. 1598 Stirling B. Rec. I 89.
And that the laiff of quheit breid … be sauld for xij d. 1608 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III 520. 1618 Inverness Rec. II 154.
The leiff of quheit breid 1624 Edinb. B. Rec. VI 249.
The second sort of quheitt breid alias callit sour breid and the thrid sort of quheitt breid commounlie callit the masloche bread 1636 Dumbarton B. Rec. 51.
Quheat bread and uthir breads to serve the toun 1665 Glasgow B. Rec. III 64.
Wheit breid 1665 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp in Misc. Maitl. C. II 526.
Quheat bread 1684 Dunblane Synod 206.
If that the Communion had been given in winter, when bread was scarcer, there would have been more then to take graybread than would have come now to take wheat-breadb. 1591 Thanes of Cawdor 201.
For four quartis aill and twa queyt braid, viij s. Ib., etc. 1611 Irvine Mun. II 251.
Half ane mutskein accavytie and ane quheit bread 1632 Lithgow Trav. x 456.
A wheat bread 1663 Irvine Mun. II 265.
Tua braid wheit breid Ib.
Nyn pynts new wyn thrie braid wheit breid half ane pund suger and ane unce of tolbacco and nyn pypps