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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1617-1691
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Tabill-claith, Taffill-cloath, n. Also: table-, taiffill-, tuffell- and -cloth. [Late ME and e.m.E. tabylle clothe (1467), tablecloth (1496), table clothe (1575).] A table-cloth. Cf. Tabill-carpet n.(a) 1617 Burns Benef. Lect. 137.
Couppes, tablis, and table clothes for the ministratione of the holie communioune 1618 Burns Benef. Lect. 137.
Table claithis 1618 Ritchie Ch. S. Baldred 168.
Tabill claithis 1623 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 281.
Tabill clothis 1632 Inv. Newark 3a.
Ane reid cloath bed with table cloath with two littell reid cheyres conform thairto a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 32.
That all parrochin kirks be provyded with basins and lavars for baptisme, cupes tables and table cloaths for the comunione 1648 Linlithgow Palace 332.
Tabill cloaths of damase 1651 Edinburgh Testaments LXV 148b.
Ane cambrig tabill cloath 1652 Edinburgh Testaments LXVI 150a.
Four old carpett tabill cloathes 1670 Boyd Fam. P. No. 297.
A lytill drink tabillcloath of sax quarters long and fyve quarters broad £1 16 s. 1691 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LIII 59.
Ane duzone of fyne naprie and ane table cloath at £18(b) 1645 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III 44.
A taiffill [pr. taissill cloth] cloth 1660 Wedderburn Bk. II 43.
Ane pand and courtines for surrounding ane bed, with ane tuffell cloath, all of green cloath 1660 Wedderburn Bk. II 43.
Taffill cloath
