A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Reduore, Reduoir, Redor, n. Also: rhetour. [ME radevore (Chaucer), raduore (c1400). OED quotes Skeat's conjectured derivation f. OF *ras de Vor rash (Ras n.) of Vaur (in Languedoc; properly ? Lavaur), here = the material on which tapestry work was executed.] Some piece of equipment used in weaving. —c1420 Wynt. i 256.
Scho begowth on hand to ta Wewyng that nevyr than before Wes oysyd be tavale [ed. cavale] na reduore [E. redor, E.2 rhetour, L. reduoir (S.T.S. rednoir)]
