A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1533-1584, 1638-1662
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(Skin-cote,) Skin-coit, n. Also: skin(n)e- , skyn-, sken- and -coitt, -coat(e, -cott. [Skin n. 2 and Cote n.1 1; cf. e.m.E. skincote, skincoat (1589).] A coat made of skin.(a) 1533 Treasurer's Accounts VI 181.
To begary the samyne doublet, and to begary ane skyn coit, v½ quarteris veluot 1548 Balnaves in Knox III 444.
God … ejected them [sc. Adam and Eve] forth of Paradise, cloathing them with skinne coates 1567 Treasurer's Accounts XII 75.
To Williame Gastoun, cordinar, for making of x skyn coitis 1568 Edinburgh Testaments I 188b.
Twa auld skin coittis cuttit out 1576 Edinburgh Testaments IV 173b.
He … levis to … his seruand … ane blak skin coit 1584 Edinburgh Testaments XIII 191b.
Ane skin coit of blak marekin 1638 Adamson Muses Thr. 31.
Their skincoats with the new cut were outslash'd 1662 Haigs of Bemersyde 473.
For a skine cott to worke in(b) 1575 Dumfries B. Ct. Oct. 25.
Ane sken coit … price iiij s. ij d.
b. transf. A person's skin.1653 Urquhart Rabelais ii xvii.
I will have their skin-coat shaken once yet before they die
