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Quotation dates: 1702
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†BARBARIZE, BARBOURISE, v. To act as a barber, to shave.Sc. 1702 H. G. Graham Soc. Life of Scot. 18th cent. (1899) I. 93:
For gentlemen, instead of “barbourising” themselves, to use the expression of the day, were dependent on their servants or their wig-makers to shave their heads.Edb. 1702 Acc. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (S.H.S. 1894) 302:
To a lad for barbarizing me in Jamie Grayes absence . . . 0. 5. 0.
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