Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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Quotation dates: 1787-1816, 1890
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MINUWAE, n. Also minowaye, minaway; minua, minawa (Sc. 1911 S.D.D.). A minuet, the forms being based on the Fr. pronunciation (menuet).Ayr. 1787 Burns Letters (Ferguson) No. 112:
Like a Lady's gentlewoman in a minuwae, or a hen on a het girdle.Slk. 1816 Hogg Poems (1874) 173:
The otar dancit ane minowaye.Ags. 1890 A. Lowson J. Guidfollow 233:
Could mince a minua on mist, Or caper on a cloud.
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