A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1420-1599
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Fetherame, n. Also: feytheram, fetherem, -um, fethreme. [ME. fetherham, -home, OE. feðerhama, -homa. Cf. Feddrame.] A coat of feathers; the feathering of a bird.c1420 Wynt. ii. 1334.
Dedalus … maide twa Feytheramys fayre thare flycht to ta c1450-2 Howlat 56.
Quhy is … My forme and my fetherem vnfrely but feire c1450-2 Ib. 913. a1500 Henr. Fab. 64 (Makc.).
A cok … with fetherem [B. fethreme] frech & gay c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace x. 135.
So feryt it … How a howlat complend off his fethrame c1515 Asloan MS I. 325/14.
Dedalus and his son Ycarus that flaw with fetheremmis c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxv. 45.
Fle wald ane abbot vp in to the sky, And all his fethreme maid wes at devyce 15.. Clariodus iv. 1008.
As pecoke fetherum was hir buske alse faire
