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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1645-1646
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Sconsceoursh, Skoncurch, n. [Appar. e.m.E. sconce ‘a jocular term for the head’ (OED, 1567), of unknown origin, and Courch(e n. There is no recorded instance in English of sconce in attrib. use, as in this and Sconcloath n.] Some sort of headdress (? for a woman); ? a head-scarf. —1645 Sc. Hist. Rev. XXX 149.
Tuo sconsceourshes to Jeane and tuo to the servant 1646 Edinburgh Testaments LXII 242b.
Sex biginets and skoncurches and napkines estimat all to vj lib.