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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Swartrytter, n. (e.m.E. swartroter (1557), e.m.Du. swartrutter ‘one of a class of irregular troopers, with black dress and armour and blackened faces, who infested the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries’ (OED, s.v. Swartrutter).) —1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 22.
Ane lose cloke sic as the swartrytters weir
