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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1476, 1544
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Scute, n. (ME scute ‘an English name for the French coin called écu’ (c1400; OED), L. scutum shield, whence OF escut, escu.) — 1476 Cochran-Patrick Coinage I p. cxxv.]
[(Gold coined) in scutis et novis denariis vulgariter dictis rydaris 1544 Reg. Privy S. III 110/2.
The escheit of the soume of xl crounis of the sone, uthirways callit xl scuttis
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