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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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†TOLLET, n. Also tollar. A long narrow cloth for laying over a table, desk or the like, usu. embroidered or otherwise decorated. Also attrib. with cloth.Sc. 1714 P.S.A.S. LXII. 190:
A Crimson Velvet Tollet which is placed in the Church before the Commissioner to the General Assembly.Bnff. 1718 W. Cramond Ch. Grange 83:
Two Tollar cloaths which did cover the bread at the time of the sacrament.Ork. 1727 A. W. Johnston Church in Ork. (1940) 107:
One Peuther Bason, an Holland Tollar, an mortcloath.