Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1776-1803, 1892-1927
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SOY, n. Also †soye. Silk. Also in comb. silken soy, id. Used erron. in 1892 quot. Now only arch.Sc. 1776 D. Herd Sc. Songs I. 73:
His stockings were of silken soy.Sc. 1803 J. Mayne Glasgow 10:
Little maids, wi' meikle joy . . . Clip, wi' care, the silken soy For Ladies' braws.e.Lth. 1892 J. Lumsden Sheep-Head 37:
In skin-ticht duds o' flannel soy They loup, and rin the races.Ags. 1927 L. Spence Weirds and Vanities 5:
And like a castel sewn in soye The turrets o' the Scottish Troy Atowre that meikle moat rise up.
