A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1600-1645
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Knap, comb. With button, silk button. Appar. Knap n.1(1) 1602 Tailors Acc. Bk. 28.
[5½ doz. of] grene knap buttones to ȝour coit and breik kneis 1606 Ib. 41 b.
Viij dossane of grit knap buttones to ȝour … cloik 1632 Edinburgh Testaments LV. 256.
Tuell dosone of silver knapp buttones 1635 Galloway P. 11 Aug.
A dussone starne knap buttouns 13s. 4d.(2) 1600 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 69 b.
Knap silk buttonis to the said goun 1644–5 Misc. Spald. C. V. 163.
Sexteine dusson pear knap silk buttons, at fyve shillings the dusson
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