A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Saincture, n. (Appar. OF ceingture (c1120 in Tobler-Lommatzsch) a black band painted on the walls of a church in commemoration of the dead of a noble family, and decorated with the family coat-of-arms, or a band of material, similarly decorated, stretched around the interior of a church during a funeral service.) —1494 Loutfut MS 48b.
And at the feyt of the beir a scuchon with the armys of the deid and all the liuernar & the saincture [transcr. sanicture] of the kyrk suld be armoyit with the sammyn scuchons
