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Quotation dates: 1585-1684
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Feila-, Feildamort, n. Also: feilamoirt, feildemort, phildemort; filley-, feillie-, felle-, fele-; philemort, phille mort; feilmort; philmort, philmoirt; failȝemort; filleymort, filȝemort, fillamort, fillamorth; philamort; fuilȝemort. [e.m.E. fieulamort (1647), feulamort (1702), later fille-, file-, phili-, philamot, OF. feuille-morte ‘dead leaf’.] Of the colour of a dead leaf; yellow or brown. 1585 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 82.
Thre elnis philmoirt fustiane to be ane doublet 1585 Edinburgh Testaments XV. 26.
Two steiks of fuilȝe mort fustaine 1587 Ib. XVIII. 81.
Ane steik of philmort stemmyng 1587 Ib. 81 b.
xiij ellis … filley mort fustiane, … sax ellis … of feillie mort fustiane1587 Ib. 81 b.
xiij ellis filleymort fustiane 1592 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 68 b.
Thre elnis and ane half fuilȝemort fustiane to be him a doublet 1596 Ib. 81.
Feilmort cullerit weluet to be coittis … feilmort cullour sating to be … dowbletis 1598 Edinburgh Testaments XXXI. 321.
Ane steik of failȝemort fustiane 1602 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 164 b.
Filȝemort London claith 1608 Tailors Acc. Bk. 63.
To ȝour sones feildamort cloke thrie naillis & ane half of grene velvit 1612 Treasurer's Accounts MS. XLVII. 145 b.
Fyve ellis of fillamorth fustiane 1612 Brechin Testaments II. 252 b.
Ane elne of Spanis taiffite of fillamort 1612 Edinburgh Testaments XLVII. 132.
Ane pair of phille mort silk gairtanes 1618 Ib. L, 164.
Sex elnis … feilamort and licht gray figourit tafitie 1620 Ib. 352 b.
Thrie elnis sad philamort [?s]temming 1621 Ib. LI, 111 b.
Ane peis ȝallow skouring and x elnis feilamort 1635 Ib. LVII. 243.
Ten ellis phildemort Inglish claith … fowr ellis sad philemort claith 1684 Symson Descr. Galloway (1823) 79.
In … Monnygaffe there is ane excrescence … which the countrey people … get from the roots of trees and … this they make use of to lit or dy a kind of orange or philamort colour
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