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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bonallay, n. Also: bonalai, -alay, -aila, (bonyalla,) bonallé, bonnaillie. [f. F. bon good, aller to go, going.] A farewell health or greeting. c1475 Wall. ix. 45.
Bonalais [thai] drank rycht glaidly in a morow, Syn leiff thai tuk a1578 Pitsc. I. 368/24.
All the rest of his nobilietie tuik thair leif in the samin maner witht great bonallayis [v.r. bonalles] drinking on ewerie syde a1605 Birrel Diary 43.
The 7 day of Maii he went home ward, and for honour of his bonyalla, the cannons shott out of the castell of Edinburghe 1632–3 Peebles B. Rec. 418.
[To] the persone and Mr Andro when thei raid to St Androis, [for] their bonaila with the provost and baillies 1633 Stat. Acc. XVIII. 657.
When his own son sailed … and gave not his father his bonnallie
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