Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1764, 1845
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BURNET, n. Sc. usage: a variety of a plum formerly grown in the West of Scotland.Ayr. 1764 Boswell Grand Tour, Germany, etc. (Pottle 1953) 110:
Plums of the bluish-red kind which we call burnets at Auchinleck. Lnk. 1845 Stat. Acc.2 VI. 744:
The native varieties of this sort of fruit are, burnets, whitcorns, . . . .
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