A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Palestral(l, -ale, a.1 Also: palustrall, -ale. [ME. (once) palestral (Chaucer), f. late ME. (Lydgate) and e.m.E. palestre, palastre, palester, wrestling-school, also, wrestling, athletics, F. palestre (12th c. in Littré), L. palæstra.] Pertaining to wrestling or to athletics generally; athletic. (Only in Douglas' Æneid.) —1513 Doug. i. Prol. 174.
The lusty gamys and plays palustrall That is ourhippit quyte and left behynd Ib. iii. iv. 136.
Our falloschip excers palestral [v.rr. -ale, -ustrale] play … Nakyt wreslyng and struglyng at nyce punte Ib. vi. x. 34.
