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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1634-1682
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Outlander, n. [Cf. e.m.E. outlander (1605), Du. uitlander, Ger. ausländer, a man of foreign nationality, an alien, a stranger.] A person from outside the town. Also attrib. — 1634 Culross I. 186.
Some outlanders being found drunk in tyme of sermon viz. Wm Huison and Wm. Day, indwellers in the Kruk of Devoun 1682 Perth Shoemakers 13.
[Anent] outlander [shoemakers who married freemen shoemakers' daughters]
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