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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Fage, Faige, n. Also: fadge, feadge. [Of obscure origin.] A flat thick loaf. 1442 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 9.
At the baxtares baake na faiges 1529 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 17.
[The council] ordanis that the lang fage of quheit breid … be guid and sufficient stuf Ib.
Ony of the saidis fagis or fowattis 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v.
Quhatecus, ane kinde or forme of bread, quhilkwe call ane fage 1598 St. A. Baxter Bks. 63.
To baike baikes, or faiges, or bread leawes to gang to the sea 1601 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 280.
The mayneschottis of flour, fadges, fowattis, fardellis, reid bapis, … and siclyk breid 1662 Crim. Trials III. 618.
It was about the bignes of a feadge or pow