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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1489-1490
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Logour, -owr, n. [Origin uncertain; ? connected with logger v. (see Loggerand ppl. a.): also in the later dial. of Dumfr. (Jam.).] Some variety of hose: ‘stockings without feet, tied up with garters, and hanging down over the ankles’ (Jam.). — 1489 Treasurer's Accounts I. 149.
vii elne of quhyte to be logouris [sic in MS.] to the King the tyme his leg wes sayre 1489 Ib. 158.
For the makin of xviii payre of logouris and schorte hoyse ix s. 1490 Ib. 156.
ix elne of quhyte to be logowris to the duke
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