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: 1399-1400
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Greg(e)ois, a. and n. [ME. gregois, gregoyse (c 1350), OF. gregois.] a. adj. Greek (fire). b. n. pl. Greeks. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xvii. 46.
The quhilk, quhatthinge it ourtuke, As fyr gregois brynt at a luke c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 449.
Ane erne … Inne to the schippes … Of the gregeois in hast thame had c1400 Ib. 695; etc.
That the gregeois in the cite The lyghtlyere myght haue entre
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