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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1436-1689
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Velvot(e, -et(t, n. Also: -ott, -oit, -oot, -ate, -att, -it, -eit(t, -eth, -ed, welvot(e, -ott, -oit, -oot, -et(t, -it, velwot(t, -et, welwot, -et(e, -ett, -at, -it, veloutt, welout, vellwat, vellot, wellvet, -at, wellwot, -at, (wellort), veil(l)veit(t, valvet, wolwat, velut(i)e, valute. [ME and e.m.E. veluett (1320), velvet (1351), velowet (Chaucer), welwett (1441-2), vellet (1546-7), vellat (1547), vellute (1561), med. L. velvetum, vel(l)utum.] Velvet. Also pl., sorts of velvet. b. attrib. Also fig.See also Dyce(i)t adj., Lap(p)ed p.p., Luke, Lukis, Pan-velvot(e n., Pile n.4 2, Plus(c)h(e n. attrib., S(c)hag(e n. 2 (1), Trip(e n.2 comb. (1) and b, Tripit ppl. adj. and the indexes of the volumes of Treas. Acc. for many further examples.Quot. 1611 in (c), hemp weluot, is quoted, prob. erroneously, s.v. Hemp n. 2 attrib. This is appar. an abbrev. of hempschyr (see quot. 1612). 1331 Exchequer Rolls I 380.
[Vnius vlne velueti albi 1331 Exchequer Rolls I 385.
vxxviij vlnis velueti rubei, per empcionem Londoniis 1436 Exchequer Rolls IV 680.
Una pecia veluti blavii coloris 1448 Exchequer Rolls V 311.]
Velveto(a) ?1438 Alex. ii 4964.
Thay ar all set On carpettis made of weluet ?1438 Alex. ii 7641.
The maydinnis cled war in veluet 1529 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV 230.
Ane hogtoune of blak velvett 1532 Treasurer's Accounts VI 26.
Veluet to begarie the said goune 1542 Treasurer's Accounts VIII 74.
Hois of the Italien fassoun … blak velvet of Janis 1551–2 Treasurer's Accounts X 47.
Welwet 1581 Acts III 220/2.
That nane … being vnder the degreis of … landit gentilmen … sall … weir … onie clayth of gold … weluet, satyne [etc.] 1582 Perth B. Ct. 24 Sept.
Velueth 1590 Thanes of Cawdor 198.
For ane browband of welvett to his mesterchipis hatt(b) 1436 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II 142.
Veluate 1449 Innes Rev. XVII 60.
Ane chisabell of rid welwat 1494 Halyb. 37.
Wellvat 1494 Halyb. 62.
Wellwat(c) 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 419.
Cursouris twelf, trappit in grene veluote 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 538, 540 (see Vell(o)us n. (b)). 1506 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I 248.
I leife to James Sincler … al my geir … excep my red cote of welvote, the quhilk I leife to the hie alter of the Cathedrall Kyrk of Orknaye c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 135/12.
They cheset four men … In gounes of velvot … To beir the paill of velves cramase 1511 Treasurer's Accounts IV 197.
To be the King ane hogtoun coit vij½ elnis blak welvot 1511 Treasurer's Accounts IV 221.
Lady Callendar … to be hir ane leveray goune agane Ȝule, xv elnis blak welvot 1522–3 Treasurer's Accounts V 197.
To … ane of the ȝemen … for his luveray clath, tua elnis of weluot 1538 Treasurer's Accounts VII 8.
Ane skawbert of reid welvot 1538 Treasurer's Accounts VII 29.
For … fyne blak welvot for theis of the kingis hois 1539 Treasurer's Accounts VII 177.
Reid welvot of grane to cover ane mating buke c1540 Lynd. Syde Taillis 73.
Taillis … Weill bordourit with ueluoit fyne 1542 Inv. Wardrobe 84.
Velvott 1542 Acts & Decr. I 163b.
Welvoit 1554 Acts II 604/1.
Veluote and all vther kynd of silkis 1554–5 Treasurer's Accounts X 270.
Weluott 1559 Edinb. B. Rec. III 43.
Welwot 1572 Satirical Poems xxxiii 254.
His wyfe weiris weluot on hir gowne and coller a1585 Maitland in Maitland Quarto MS 3/41.
Thair schone of velwot 1611 Edinburgh Testaments XLVI 253b.
Sex quarteris of hemp weluot 1612 Brechin Testaments II 252b.
Elewin elnis hempschyr velvot 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 307.
Naples fusteanes wrocht called Sparta veluot 1634 Edinburgh Testaments LVI 368.
Velvoot … welvoot 1640 4th Rep. Hist. MSS IV 512/2.
Incarnatt London cloath embrouderit with blak velvott(d) 1538 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. II 89.
Dowbletts of veloutt, satyne, dammes or silk 1560–1 Aberd. B. Rec. I 330.
Four coddis of welout(e) 1604 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 31.
Velvit to be ane nycht bonnet 1608 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 67b.
Velved 1645 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III 42.
Welvit 1657 St. A. Baxter Bks. 125.
Welwit 1676 Red Bk. Grandtully II 231.
Cramasie velueit(f) ? 15… Aberd. B. Rec. MS XVI (Jam. s.v. Wolwat n.).
Wolwat(g) 1688 Douglas Bequest 24 July.
Valvet(h) c1500 Cart. S. Nich. Aberd. I 212.
Cum vno completo vestimento cerico videlicet le blew wellortis 1502 Halyb. 268.
Vellwat 1546 Lynd. Trag. Card. 21.
Ane man … clothit full curiouslie, Off vellot and of saityng crammosie a1578 Pitsc. I 174/15.
Wellvet a1578 Pitsc. I 368/6.
Welwete 1595 Brechin Testaments I 128.
Tua kirtillis … ane ȝallov wellwotpl. 1558–9 Treasurer's Accounts X 414.
To Charlis Fanglen, Flemyng, for certane velvottis and silkis 1620 Edinburgh Testaments L 353.
Sex scoir … elnis … plaine velvotis veilderais schag velvot and French and French menveine figorit velvotis at fourteine pundis the elneb. (1) 1539 Treasurer's Accounts VII 148.
Twa welvot bonettis 1551 Treasurer's Accounts X 30.
Welwett 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 600.
Coistlie veluot wobbis a1570-86 Maitland in Maitland Folio MS 300/92.
Betwene thame and nobillis of blude Na difference bot ane velwet [Maitl. Q. 5/92, veluous] hude 1574 Misc. Maitl. C. I 104.
Jonet Cadye … delatit to the kirk for disagysing of hir in welvot breikis 1590 St. A. B. Ct. 28 April.
Velwott 1597 Bk. Rates 7.
Knyfis with weluot schethis the pair xx s. 1611 Dunblane Test. III 119.
Veluatt 1622 Brechin Testaments IV 62b.
Thre scoir elnis narrow luggit velvot paismentis 1640 Black Bk. Taymouth 349.
Great cramosie velvott cuschiounes for the kirk 1653 Lanark B. Rec. 149.
Velveitt 1689 Cramond Kirk S. III 13 Nov.
Money arising from the velvet and cloath mortcloathes(b) 1649 Wemyss Chart. 231.
My ueilueitt nicht goune 1649 Wemyss Chart. 232.
Ueillueitt(c) 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III 361b.
Thrie pund … of velutie pasmentis 1581 Edinburgh Testaments IX 184b.
xx dosane of velute pasmentis(2) c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 423.
Browderit wark and veluot grene 15.. Clariodus ii 1897.
Gounis of velvot cramosie 1558 Treasurer's Accounts X 359.
Welvot dames and cammeroche(b) 1582 Treasurer's Accounts MS 88.
Fourtein elnis violat valute taffatie price of the eln v li. vj s. viij d.(3) 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i lvi 247.
Velvet-weavers, tapestrie-makers and upholsterers(4) fig. c1620 Boyd Fl. Zion Exc. xxii/1 (see Lufe n.2 (c)).
Tender ladies, with soft velvet loof, Must now be servants
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