A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1499-1500, 1652-1683
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Triangular, Tryanguler, Triangler, adj. [e.m.E. trianguler (1541), triangulare (Spenser), triangular (1644), OF triang(u)lier, late L. triangularis.] Having the shape of a triangle. —a1500 Bk. Chess 2024.
This tovne in four sqwar was wrocht … Bot of the towris hicht tryanguler [etc.] 1652 Montgomery Mem. 318.
Six litle triangler conceits of gold 1683 Reid Sc. Gard'ner (1907) 5.
In the two triangular courts … are placed the offices-houses
