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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1697

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(Unvenable,) Wnvenable, adj. [17th c. Eng. unvendible (1642); Vendible adj.] Unsaleable. —1697 Edinburgh Testaments LXXX 228.
Standing in his seller … ane hogshead of clairet wyne quhich wes werie wnvenable and litle better then for the dreg pott

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