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Trailȝe, Trelȝe, n. Also: trailȝee, trailȝie, trailye, trailȝay, trailȝeit, treilȝe, treilie, trellȝe. [OF treliz, trelis, MF treillis (12th c. and 15th c. in Wartburg), 18th c. Eng. trellis (1706).] Cloth of various sorts.Common in Treas. Acc. I.(a) 1501 Treas. Acc. II 26.
xx elne quhit trailȝe to be ruf and courtingis for the king in the Treif; ilk elne iiij s. vj d. 1501 Treas. Acc. II 51.
For ane maid doublait to him of trailȝe viij s. ix d. 1501 Treas. Acc. II 114.
For ane hors to the Treif with the hinging of trailȝee 1503–4 Treas. Acc. II 224.
For x½ elne blak trailȝe to lyne the kingis kirtill for the rob riall 1507–8 Treas. Acc. IV 30.
For ix½ elne blew trailȝe to be ane couch to the quene 1512 Treas. Acc. IV 297.
To eik the said standaris and flaggis of the Margret, vj½ elnis half ane quartar blew trailȝe … To be crocis to the said standaris, iij½ elnis quhet trailȝe 1529 Treas. Acc. V 363.
For ane eln and ane half of trailȝe for ane goun of blak veluot lynit with claith of gold 1536 Treas. Acc. VI 457.
vj elnis of trailȝe of almanȝe to lyne the kingis lyar 1536 Treas. Acc. VI 461.
For reid trailȝe to double the saidis caparisounis 1538 Treas. Acc. VI 426.
Ane nycht goune of satyne trailȝeit 1542 Inv. Wardrobe 92.
Ane doublet of blak sating trailye 1543 Treas. Acc. VIII 232.
Fyve quarteris trailȝe to be his grace ane pair of sockis 1570 Edinb. Test. II 80a.
Trailȝie 1578 Treas. Acc. XIII 200.
Trailye(b) 1490 Acta Conc. I 158/1.
Five stikkis of trelȝe of sindry hewis 1495 Treas. Acc. I 226.
vj quarteris of quhit treilȝe … to be the king a harnes doublat 1496 Halyb. 55.
3 stekis trellȝe 1529 Treas. Acc. V 377.
Fyve quarteris of trelȝe, price vj s. 1597 Bk. Rates 10a.
Trelȝe of Almanȝe

b. attrib. With garments, etc. and with other sorts of cloth, as sating, etc.(1) 1502 Treas. Acc. II 38.
Tua trailȝe baggis to the king vij s. 1569 Treas. Acc. MS 235.
Blak weluote to bordour ane trailȝe cloke(2) 1539 Treas. Acc. VII 178.
To be ane nycht goun of the kingis grace of trailȝeit sating 1566–7 Treas. Acc. XII 41.
v elnis of trailye bukrame 1566–7 Mary's mourning in Chalmers Mary I 207.
Of treilie buccharem v elle 1566 Treas. Acc. MS 110.
v elnis of trailȝe bukrame xl s. 1642 Edinb. Test. LX 41b.
Twa peices of trailȝie buckrome pryce of ilk peice iiij lib. 1661 Funeral Acc. I 4 (M. of Montrose).
1 ell of fyne trailȝay bukrom at 3 lib. 4 s. ell