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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1567, 1699
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Tanton(i)e, prop. n. [e.m.E. Tantonie (1594), abbrev. form of Saint Antony, with the final t of Saint assimilated to the following word.] Only attrib.: St. Anthony's (market, bell). — 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 175.
He had to sell the Tantonie bell, And Pardonis thairin was 1699 Black Bk. Kincardineshire 93.
That his house was broken upon said Tantone-market evening, being the sixteenth day of January last [and cheese stolen]
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