A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Parliament-hous(e, n. Also: -housse. [ME. parlement-house (c 1394), e.m.E. parlya- (1525), parliament house.] The building in which (the Scottish) Parliament meets. Also attrib.1585 Acts III. 375/2.
The constable [of Scotland] … satt laich doun in the parliament hous 1593 Acts IV. 22/1.
Quhasoeuir salhappin … [to] stryk … ony persoun within his hienes parliament hous 1606 Misc. Spald. C. II. 220. 1638 Edinb. B. Rec. VII. 206. 1639 Acts V. (1870) 254/2.
The … lordis of the articles … sat daylie … within the innerhouse of the great parliament house forsaid 1639 Bk. Pasquils 79.
The Keal-wyves Comoninge or Currant Newes from the Parliament Housse 1641 Acts V. (1870) 626/1.
That ordour be gevin for hinging of the parliament hous 1680 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 396.attrib. c1515 Asl. MS. I. 242/4.
[In 1452] thar was put … on the parliament hous dure ane letter [etc.]
