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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Wrace, n. [Var. of Race n. 1 b, c or 3.] People from a particular location or of a particular sort. —1650 Culross I 245.
Besse Cowey told them she had been fighting with a woman of the other syd of the water for her own wrace