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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1670-1694
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For(e)-, Foir-streit, -street, n. The street in front of the houses. — 1670 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 270.
That the fleshers … did kill ther fleshes wpon the streits, and did hing out the same befor and under staires, toward the foir streit 1694 Foulis Acc. Bk. 167.
To pay the painter for colouring the windowes to the forstreit
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