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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1450-1505
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Burd(e, Buird Alexander, n. [ME. burd alysaunder (1392), boorde alisandre, etc., OF. burd alisaunder, bourde de Alisaundre (i.e. of Alexandria).] A kind of striped silk. c 1450 Misc. Maitl. C. III. 196.
Of syngyll standis. Item of greyn worsat … Item of burd alexander 1454 Old Dundee II. 31.
A green vestment of buird Alexander with its graith 1497 Halyb. 156.
Bocht iij stekis of burd alexander 1501 Treasurer's Accounts II. 66.
xij elne burdalexander to the latrones in the kyrk 1505 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. II. 114.
Item casulam de le burd alexander 1505 Ib.
Cum perura viridis burd alexander super manicam vnius albe 1505 Ib.
Item, vnam peruram super vnum examitum de viridi burde alexander
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