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Quotation dates: 1546-1647
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Knapscall-bon(n)et, n. Also: knap(p)iscall-, knapskal-, knapschaw-, knapska-, -scha-, knappisca- and -bonat, -bannet. Also irregular variant: knappisk bonet. [Knapscall n. b.] a. A bonnet for covering a knapscall. b. Latterly transf. to the whole thing, metal ‘shell’ and bonnet together. = Knapscall n. 1546 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 237.
Ane knapschaw bonat, with ane wther bonnat, price of the pece x ld. 1568 Edinburgh Testaments (1567–1569) 151.
Ane knapscall bonet price x s. 1577 Ib. V. 130 b.
Tua knapiscall bonettis price of baith xl s. 1590 Ib. XXI. 299.
Thrie knappisca bonnettis price iiij lib. a1595 Descr. Isles 31.
Thir haill Iles abovewritten … quhairof … 2000 men aucht and suld be cled with actounes & haberschounis, & knapskal bannetts, as thair lawis beir 1600 Criminal Trials II. 158.
My Lord, … with tua drawin suordis in his hand, a knappiscall bonat on his heid 1605 Ib. 475.
With suordis, knapska-bonnettis, lances [etc.] c1610 Melville Mem. 25.
Normond Lesly … had aboue his corsellet … his cot of armour … and a red knappisk bonet vpon his head, wherby he was kend … a far aff 1647 Edinburgh Testaments LXIII. 50 b.
Ane sword ane hagbitt with ane knapscha bonnet
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