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Vasken(e, Vasquine, n. Also: waskene, vaskin, waskin(e, -kyn(e, -ing, vaskein(e, waskein(e, wasqwene, -quene, -quine, -qwyne, vaiskyne. [F. vasquine.] A petticoat. b. Material used to make petticoats.(a) 1561 Inv. Wardrobe 132.
Of doublettis, vaskenis, and skirtis … ane doublett of blak velvot and the vaskene of the same 1562 Inv. Q. Mary 57.
Thre vaskenis of reid satine pirnit with gold … Thre uther vaskenis of quhite satine pirnit with siluir 1596 Montgomery Mem. 235.
Waskene 1601 Treas. Acc. MS 82.
Buckasie to lyne hir waskene, bodeis, and sleiffis(b) 1553 Treas. Acc. X 202.
Item, half ane elne blak welwote to bordour ane waskyne of quhite dalmes 1569 Prot. Bk. J. Drummond 76.
Waskyn 1591–3 Sc. N. & Q. IX 116.
Hir best waskyn [pr. wastryn] of claythe of gold, price sex hundreth pundis 1599 Treas. Acc. MS 53.
Waskin 1603 Treas. Acc. MS 273b.
Vaskin 1634 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II 424.
Ane fyne waskine with ane pesment of silver about the taill pryce fiftie pundis c1640 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B 43b.
Maid to ȝour doeichter ane govne of schairge & vaiskyne 1645 Edinb. Test. LXI 121.
I liue … to Margaret Johnstoune … my best goune … & my waskine of rid camlet(c) 1605 Paterson Ayr & Wigton III 197.
Sax gownes with dowblets, skirts and vaskenis tharto, ilk gowne skirt dowblet and waskein estimat lxvi lib. 13 s. 4 d. 1619 Edinb. Test. L 217.
My rid sateine vaskeine 1621 Edinb. Test. LI 91.
Ane waskeine of greine and orenge taffitie with ane siluer lais abone the taill 1631 Paterson Ayr & Wigton II 351.
Ane vaskein of raisit flourit velvet(d) 1562 Inv. Q. Mary xxviii.
There are thirty four vasquines or basquines, and 16 devants, chiefly of cloth of gold, cloth of silver and satin 1566–7 Treas. Acc. XII 41.
xvij elnis ij quarteris of chamloch of silk to be ane wilicote and ane wasqwyne 1567 Treas. Acc. XII 51.
vij elnis of wirsatt to be ane wasquine(e) 1562–3 Treas. Acc. XI 239.
v elnis ij quarteris of tafeteis of the foure threidis to be ane wasqwene 1565 Treas. Acc. XI 351.
Wasquene(f) 1645 Edinb. Test. LXI 145.
Wasking 1649 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV 781.
Thrie floured silke waskings pryce of the peice ane hundreth merksb. 1625 Edinb. Test. LIII 136b.
xij ellis of wasking at v s. the elne 1633 Edinb. Test. LVI 200.
Fyftie elnes vaskenes at ix s. the elne