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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

TOLLET, n. Also tollar. A long narrow cloth for laying over a table, desk or the like, usu. embroidered or otherwise decorated. Also attrib. with cloth.Sc. 1714 P.S.A.S. LXII. 190:
A Crimson Velvet Tollet which is placed in the Church before the Commissioner to the General Assembly.
Bnff. 1718 W. Cramond Ch. Grange 83:
Two Tollar cloaths which did cover the bread at the time of the sacrament.
Ork. 1727 A. W. Johnston Church in Ork. (1940) 107:
One Peuther Bason, an Holland Tollar, an mortcloath.

[O.Sc. tolat, tulat, a piece of cloth for wrapping clothes, 1540, O. Fr. toilete, Eng. toilet, a dressing-table cover. The form tollar is appar. a ms. misreading.]

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