A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1494, 1585-1599
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(Plumb-,) Plumbe-lede, n. Also: plump-, plum- and -leid, -lead, -led. [Plum(b n. and Lede n.] Unworked or untreated lead. b. The colour of this; lead-colour. c. attrib. in sense b. — 1599 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 318.
The plumbers compt … xl stane wecht … of pl[u]mp lead coft to be castin in kakis for the gutteris — a1586 Lindsay MS. 46 b.
The floriginall colour in armes is plumbeleid — 1494 Loutfut MS. 143 a.
The berar of the plumled colour in cotarmour
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