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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1559-1661
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Strip(e, Stryp(e, Streip, n.2 [e.m.E. stripe (1626), MLG, MDu. strîpe, ON stríp a striped fabric.] A stripe, a contrasting strip of colour or fabric. Cf. Strip n. b. b. attrib. = Stripit ppl. adj. 1559 Cart. S. Giles cviii.
Ane westiament … of greine dalmas with the pertinentis begareit with strypis of gold 1588 Waus Corr. 426.
[To make a] silvaige [sc. to a tablecloth] with ane braid strype in the midis ane neiff braid with … narowe stryppis on ilk syd of the braid strypeb. 1618 Edinburgh Testaments L 90b.
Tuentie elnis of strip silk stuf at iiij lib. the elne 1651 Buccleuch Mun. II 290.
Ane sutt of strip hinghings 1661 Edinburgh Testaments LXX 152.
I leive to … my second dochter … the streip taible cloath
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