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Pe(e, Pey(e, Pie, n. Also: peie, py(e. [Late MDu. pîe (Du. pij, pije) ‘coat of coarse woollen stuff’, e.m.E. P (1585–6) a mandilion, pee (1623), py-gown (1648–78); cf. MDu. korte pîe, ME. and e.m.E. courtepy, short coat of this kind, and 18th c. Eng. pea-jacket.] A kind of ( ? loose-fitting, ? short) coat or jacket.Also comb. in pe-goun and py-doublet and attrib. in pe-grote.(a) 1490 Treas. Acc. I. 191.
x elne of russat to be thaim peys 1494 Ib. 233.
Gevin to Pringill and Carrik … to be ilkain of thame a liffray pe 1498 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 427.
To Mabuys belman xx s. to by him ane pee for to pas ilka Mononday throucht the toune in the morning 1506 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I. 55.
Ane pee & ane huid … price of the pe ii s. price of the huid iiij d. 1540 Acta Conc. MS. XIII. 119 b.
Ane riding pe of blak serge price x merkis 1544 Treas. Acc. VIII. 320.
xiiij elnis pasmentis of worsit to this pe 1547 Ex. Processes (Reg. H.) Walbane v. Douglas.
Ane pe of Franche pylie gray price iij li. 1548 Treas. Acc. IX. 213.
To be hir ryding goun and pe 1549 Ib. 360. 1583 Haddington B. Rec. (Robb) 17 Sept.(b) 1546–7 Treas. Acc. IX. 61.
Twa ryding peyes 1563 Ferg. Answer 15 b.
Lyke players … with … long wide sarkes aboue your clothing, and shorte peies lyke cotes of armoure aboue all(c) 1535–6 Treas. Acc. VI. 257.
Ane ryding pye a1568 Bann. MS. 158 b/70.
His clais is oft in wanting and sic is his gyis He thrawis and he puttis fast at his vlly pyis 1573 Edinb. Test. II. 370 b.
To Margaret Betoun ane Frenche blak pie a1578 Pitsc. I. 174/15.
Clad in ane ryding pie of blak wellvet 1592 Edinb. Test. XXV. 32 b.
Hir auld cloik and hir pie for hir seruice 1605 Bann. Memor. 366. 1635 Dickson Wr. 127.
A soldier's pie was put upon him, and they mocked him 1661–70 Old Ross-shire I. 143.
Pyscomb. 1483 Acta Aud. *112/1.
Twa pee govnis ane of Franche blak ane vther of tanny price of the blak pee v li. with the capy berne 1493 Prot. Bk. J. Young (S.R.S.) 132.
A pe goune … lynyn thereof — 1600 Crim. Trials II. 158.
That my lord wes seyand on a py dowblett with the theis and the taill pecis for the wamb a1646 Wedderb. Voc. 23 (Jam.).
Pectorale, a py-doubletattrib. 1645 Tulliallan Coal Wks. 146 b.
Off bounty 3 pe grotis [£2. 14s.]