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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Petit-custom(e, -custume, n. Also: pettit-. [Late ME. petit custome (1442). Cf. Petty-custom(e.] Petty customs. = Petty-custom(e n. —1478 Acta Aud. 60/1.
Anent the pettit custummis of the tovne of Disart 1482 Edinb. Chart. 167.
Petit custume 1493 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 66.
Petit customes 1540–1 Ib. II. 103.
For his petit customes of viij lastis hering and ane half

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