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Quotation dates: 1667
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Sow, n.3 [? Reduced form of trousseau. Also in the later dialect of the NE.] A bride's outfit of clothes, a trousseau. — 1667 (1683) Morison Dict. Decis. 10436.
Andrew Littlejohn pursues the Duchess of Monmouth and her curators for payment of a taylor-account taken off by the Duchess for her marriage sow
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