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Perlit, Peirlit, ppl. a.¹ Also: perlot, pearleit, pairlit. [ME. and e.m.E. perled (Gower), pearled (c 1586), f. Perle n. ¹] a. Furnished, set or adorned with, or as with, pearls. b. Pearly. = Perly a. a.a. 1561 Inverness Rec. I. 53.
Ane siluer wche gilt with gold and perlot a1568 Bann. MS. 228 b/43.
With peirlit prenis of pacience 1564 Reg. Privy C. I. 308.
Ane cowip of silver dowbill ouregilt with ane cover peirlit with cristallyne within 1575 Edinb. Test. III. 361 b.
Foure peirlit beltis at vj s. vij d. the pece c1590 J. Stewart 24/352.
Ane chiftan quhyt … Vith perlit helm 1622 Edinb. Test. LI. 250 b.
Four peirlit rignis pryce of all xl merkis 1628 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. ix. 43.
One pearleit cheinȝie of gold and muisc beidis 1637 Edinb. Test. LVIII. 216 b (see Perle n.¹ 1 b).
Pairlitb. c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 14 (B) (see Perly a.).