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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1420-1456, 1535-1609, 1692
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Stallo(u)n, Stalo(w)n, n. Also: stallone, stallion. [ME and e.m.E. staloun (Wyclif), stalon (Gower), stallon(e (1537); stalyone (Prompt. Parv.), OF estalon (13th c. in Larousse), ultim. f. as Stal(l n.] A stallion. b. transf. A man whose function is to supply sexual services. c1420 Wynt. i 1019.
Wytht out stalown [C. stalon] the merys thar Off the wynde consayvand are 1456 Exchequer Rolls VI 207.
Pro expensis cujusdam equi … dicti stalloun 1535 Acts II 346/2.
Personis havand studis … mak the samin to be plenist with … stude meris and gret stallonis 1564 Protocol Book of William Gray in Origines Parochiales II ii 726.
Stallone 1568 Reg. Privy S. VI 51/1.
To plenneis the samin [forest] with deir, ra, meiris and stallownis 1609 Black Bk. Taymouth 432.
He hathe sent yow a horss to be a stallonb. 1692 Presbyterian Eloquence (1694) 42.
The Scotch gentry … are … The Devil's instruments, fit only to be stallions and pimps to bawdy-houses
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