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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1569-1651
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Counterfute, -foot(e, a. Also: countirfute, cunterfute, -futt, counterfut, -fout, -fott. [Variant of counterfit (see Counterfait a.), prob. after Counterfute n.1 Cf. Conterfute.] Counterfeit.(1) 1571 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 132.
iiij elnis and ane half of counterfute blak serge 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III. 363 b.
Counterfute perlis for masking, price of the thousand xij d. 1580 Acts III. 191/1.
Be occasioun quharof … fals and counterfute money hes passage and cours 1582 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 81.
Counterfute leonis canves to be ane doublet 1597 Bk. Rates 5.
Fustiane of Milan … Lyning fustiane … Cunterfutt fustiane 1611 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 280.
Becaus the mayneschottis of flour, … counterfute bunnes, yallow coittis and siclyk breid keipis na pais or wecht 1612 Bk. Rates 304.
Fans of counterfute ostridge feathers 1641 Edinburgh Testaments LIX. 286.
Certane ribbanes vpricht and counterfoot 1641 Ib.
Certane gold and silver pairling and freinȝeis vpricht and counterfott(2) 1573 Reg. Privy C. II. 210.
Certane vagabound ydill and countirfute people of diverse nationis, falslie namyt Egiptianis 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 91.
The counterfout assaultaris touke the flicht a1585 Polwart Flyt. 636 (T).
Ane counterfute cuistroun that clerkis dois not cair 1592 Acts III. 570/1.
The samyn … apperis to be bot forgeit and counterfute tytillis a1651 Calderwood II. 354.
This subscription is counterfoote in the principall a1651 Ib. IV. 67.
A messinger was sent under a counterfoote name
