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

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1575-1620

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Burrat, Burret, n. Also: burade, bureat; buret; birret, birrat, birrit. [F. burat.] A kind of coarse woollen cloth. Also attrib.(a) 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III. 361 b.
Tua steikis of burade
1578 Ib. VI. 329.
Ane steik of burrat
1592 Thanes of Cawdor 213.
vj ellis bureat
1609 Wedderburn Compt Bk. 142.
A stik of burrat to be hir a goun
1609 Edinburgh Testaments XLV 124 b.
Scho leuis … to the said Helene Hepburne ane burrat gowne
1620 Ib. L. 352.
Certane remanes … of schagis and blak burratis
(b) 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III. 361 b.
Four bonettis of buret
1575 Ib. 383 b.
vj elnis burret
1589 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. viii. 104.
iii. ellis … of burret to eik out the burret goune
1599 Tailor's Acc. Bk. 12 b.
For drawing of the ladies burret goun
1605 Ib. 35 b.
For drawing ȝour … bodyis and sleivis of burret
1620 Edinburgh Testaments L. 352.
Certane remanis of ... chainging buretis
(c)1576 Edinburgh Testaments IV. 105 b.
xij elnis of birret
1581 Ib. IX. 184 b.
Ane steik of birrat
1606 Ib. XLII. 19.
Ane paitlet of blak birrit

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