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
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Triplar(e, Triplere, adj. [Late L. triplaris.] Having an interval of a third. Cf. Tripla(y. —a1500 Henr. Orph. 227.
In his passage amang the planetis all He herd a hevynly melody and sound … Thare lerit he tonys proportionate As duplar triplar [Bann. triplare, Asl. triplere] and epetritus
