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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Gran(d)gor(e, Grantgor(e, n. Also: grand gore; grangoir, grangour. [OF. grand gorre. Cf. glangoir, Glengore.] Venereal disease, syphilis.(a) 1497 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 71.
This contagius seiknes callit the grandgor c1500 Rowll Cursing 63 (M).
The stranȝelone and the grit grandgor [B. glengoir] 1529 Lynd. Complaynt 286.
The kyngis fule, … For his rewarde, gat the grand gore 1536 Id. Answ. Flyting 62.
God … That you preseruit from gut & frome grandgore 1535 Stewart 29508.
Moir horribill … for till abhor No canker, fester, gut or ȝit grandgor 1610 Dundonald Par. Rec. 210.
Marioun Shav nov lying in leiching of the grandgor in Kilmaris 1633 Lithgow Poet. Rem. 112.
For which his Lordschip thanks the good grandgore(b) 1496 Treas. Acc. I. 356.
To ane woman with the grantgore Ib. 361. 1509 Reg. Privy S. I. 274/2.
The infirmite of the grantgor that he was infekkit with(c) 1498 Treas. Acc. I. 386.
To the pur folk, seke folk and grangor in Lithqw 1533 Gau 96/30.
Keip vs fra al thy greit plagis, pestilence, lipper, grangour c1610 Melville Mem. 176.
It was bruted in England, that hir Maieste was to mary the Erle Bodowell … a man full of reproch and grangoir