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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1884

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BECLAIRTIT, pa.p. Splashed or covered with filth.ne.Sc. 1884 D. Grant Lays and Leg. of the North (1908) 8:
His pirns an' clews an' worset hesps, Beclairtit i' the glaur.

[See Be, pref., 1 + Clart. Clart is found also in mod.n.Eng. Biclarten, to soil, in Old Eng. Homilies of the 12th and 13th centuries E.E.T.S. I. 279: "that spatel (spittle) that swa biclartit ti leor (face)" (Stratmann's Mid.Eng. Dict.).]

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