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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bodeis, Bodyis, n. Also: bodeijs, body(e)s, bodies, bodis. [pl. of Body, partly treated as a sing.; so e.m.E. bodies (1618), bodice.] The body of a gown; a bodice, a corset. Usu. coupled with slevis, and freq. ane pair of bodeis.(1) 1566 Treas. Acc. MS. 110.
Chamlot of silk to be ane wilicote, … armosing to the bodeis and sleuis 1590 Thanes of Cawdor 197.
For the making of the bodyis and setting on the sleiffis 1594 Edinb. Test. XXVI. 258 b.
Ane reid vylicoit with bodeis & slewis thairof 1599 Tailor's Acc. Bk. MS. 13.
Scewing to this same goun bodyes and burlittis 1603 Treas. Acc. MS. 273 b.
Spanis taffatie to be ballin bodeis thairto 16.. Rec. Earld. Orkney 380.
Ane new bodeis of Scottis blak worth xxx s 1630 Dumfries Test. I a. 234 b.
Twa wyllie cottis with ane saiff gaird and bodeis(2) 1583 Edinb. Test. XIII. 45.
Ane pair of bodeis & sleuis … efferand to the gaircules 1593 Ib. XXV. 75 b.
Ane quhyt vylicoit & ane pair of bodies with slewis 1597 Ib. XXX. 170.
Ane pair of Frenche blak bodies 1603 Montgomery Mem. 246.
Ane par of quhallbon bodis, the on syd vith teffitie, and the oder syd with small canvos 1606 Dunblane Test. III. 104.
Ane pair of blak bodies with thair slewis 1648 Thanes of Cawdor 307.
A pair of whalebone bodys