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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Plus(c)h(e, n. Also: plousch, pluich; plach. [e.m.E. plush (1594) ‘a kind of cloth, of silk, cotton, wool or other material … having a nap longer and softer than that of velvet’ (OED.), F. pluche, contracted form of peluche a hair fabric, plush, f. late L. type *pilūceus, -ea, f. L. pilus hair.] Plush, the stuff. Also attrib.(a) 1597 Bk. Rates 8 b.
Inuarte custumes … plusche of silk the eln x li. 1599 Treas. Acc. MS. 53 b.
Plusche spottit quhyit and blak to lyne the sleivis 1611 Tailor's Acc. Bk. 96.
Quhyt plusch to be ȝour wyfe ane dowblet 1627 Edinb. Test. LIV. 49.
Threid plusche at xxx s. the elne c 1647 Reg. Panmure I. xli (see Mell n. 2 b). 1688 Douglas Bequest 24 July.
Finn plush(b) 1603 Montgomery Mem. 249.
Sleifs of plousch(c) c 1629 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B. 9 b.
Maid to the guid wyfe ane waiscoit of pluich(d) 16.. Bk. Dunvegan I. 195.
Silk plach an ellattrib. 1639 Dumbarton B. Rec. 60.
A scarlet cluik lynit with plusche velvet 1663 Nicoll Diary 401.