Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

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

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Cannabie, Cannobie, n. Also: cannabbie, kannabie, canabie, can(n)abe; cannaby, canobie. [e.m.E. canaby (1513), rare variant of canapy, e.m.E. and ME. canapé, F. canapé: see Canopé.] A canopy, esp. for a bed.(a) 1536 Treas. Acc. VI. 286.
Ane cannabie to the kingis gracis bed in the schip 1538 Ib. VII. 89.
xxvij elnis of reid, ȝallow, and grene serge … to be ane cannabie to Lady Jane Ib.
For making the said cannabe 1558-66 Knox II. 134.
The king was … layd upon a palliase unto suche tyme as a cannabie was sett up unto him 1561 Inv. Q. Mary 33.
Item ane cannabie of yallow varian taffetie … quhilk may serue for ane stuill of ease 1566 Fleming Q. Mary 499.
Fyftein elne of blew plading for to mak ane cannabie to the rokaris 1563–4 Prot. Bk. T. Johnsoun 138.
Ane cannabe with the curtenis … half selk half wersat with ane hed of welwat 1583 Sat. P. xlv. 1082.
On the flure he got a fall While doun come cannabie and all 1583 Edinb. Test. XIII. 45 b.
Ane fedder bed with ane grene cannabie 1598 Black Bk. Taymouth 324.
Canabeis of grene plading 1636 Edinb. Test. LVII. 281.
Ane cannabie bed … ane blew cannabie thairto 1640 Bk. Carlaverock II. 503.
An imbrothered cannabie of gray satten 1651 Buccleuch Mun. II. 290.
Ane grene serge bed, … ane halff cannabie embrodered(b) 1545 Treas. Acc. VIII. 398.
Ane man and ane hors … send to Hammiltoun witht ane cannoby of purpour taffate 1562 Will Agnes Betoun 224.
In the hall chalmer ane bed and cannoby of planetree 1619 Edinb. Test. L. 216.
Ane vovin covering, ane orinche cannobie 1685 Soc. Ant. LVIII. 359.
A suite of clow colloured hingings … A canobie of that same

b. Attrib. with bed. (Cf. Canopé.) 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 117.
They spoyled my lord Regentis ludgene, and tuike vp … his hinger about his hous, with some cannabie bedis 1604 Reliq. Antiq. Scot. 1.
Ane kannabie bed, cled with blew taffettie 1625 Edinb. Test. LIII. 114 b.
Ane cannobie bed of fir 1636 Ib. LVII. 279.
Ane canebie bed, ane chalmer table 1640 Bk. Carlaverock II. 502.
A crine caniby bed