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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Blanket, Blankat, Blancat, n. Also: blankatt, blainkat, blankait; blancatt, -cate; blanquet(t). [ME. blanket (c 1300), OF. blankete, blanquette (med. L. blanchetus, -etum), f. blanc white.]

1. A white woollen cloth. 1329 Exch. R. I. 239.
Nouem vlnarum de blanket

2. A blanket.(a) 1474 Treas. Acc. I. 41.
viij elne of quhite to my Lorde for blankatis 1478 Acta Aud. 82/1.
For … ij blainkatis, iiij s. 1493 Acta Conc. 315/1.
A pare of fustiane blankatis 1522 Dunferm. B. Rec. 209.
Ane feddir bed, … ane boster, cod and blankatis 1560 Carte Northberwic 78.
Ane honest stand bed wytht scheittis and blankattis, bowstar and coveryng 1582 Grant Chart. 156.
xx pair blankaittis … xxiiij coidis 1623 Elgin Rec. II. 180.
Quhan scho yeed with a blankat about hir ars(b) 1500 Treas. Acc. II. 20.
xxx½ elne of fustian to be blancatis to the King 1507 Ib. IV. 85.
For ane pair of blancates to Johne of Bute 1529 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 230.
Ane furnist bedd with … blancatis of fusteane 1567 Bamff Chart. 70.
Ane furneist bed … with scheittis, blancattis, … courtingis and coddis a1570-86 Maitland M. Fol. xcv. 42.
Thai leif not … Bed, boustar, blancat, sark nor scheit 1598 Black Bk. Taymouth 319.
Off feddir beddis, … scheittis, blancattis [etc.](c) 1499 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. II. 26.
Item iij pare of schetis, ij blanketis, and thre coddis and a couering 1546 Reg. Great S. 9.
Cum centonibus et lodicibus, lie bowstaris et blankettis 1583 St. A. Test. II. 8 b.
Twa pair of harding schetis … twa blankettis of hair 1633 Stirlings of Keir 448.
Ane greine dames bad, viz. bedis, bousteris, codis with blankettis(d) 1635 Haddington Corr. 300.
Thrie pair of marled blanquetts, thrie pair wakit blanquetts 1678 Corshill Baron Ct. 146.
Ane paire of blanquetis

b. In various allusive phrases. 1560 Rolland Seven S. 237/6.
Alwayis vpon his awin blanket he spittis 1585 Perth Kirk S. 253.]
[A promise of marriage ‘made under blanket’ 1607 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 59.
She opinlie awowit he shuld never be a husband to hir, and a blankatt should never cover thame c1650 Spalding II. 325.
Thairefter thay … cumis bak … with thair four captives; and, but bo to thair blanket, thay rode doun throw the Gallowget 1721 Kelly Prov. 154.
He dare not say, Bo to your Blanket. That is, he dare not offer you the least injury

c. Blew blanket, the banner of the craftsmen of Edinburgh. 1599 James VI Basil. Doron (1603) 51.
The crafts-men think we should be content with their work how bad soever it be; and if they in any thing be controlled, up goeth the blew-blanket 1657 Balfour Ann. I. 400.
Then [1596], without more, was the Blue Blankit aduanced