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Bracelet, Bra(i)slet, n. Also: bracelleit, -elat, brassalet, -elat, -illat; braissillet, braicelet; braschelet; braslat, -lit, braislat, -lait, breslet, -lit (breastlit), breislet, brislit; braclet, braic(e)let. [ME. bracelet (1438; also e.m.E. bracelette, brasselet), OF. bracelet.] A bracelet.(a) 1488 Treas. Acc. I. 81.
A brassalet of gold sett with precious stanis
Ib. 82.
A brasselat of gold
1538 Ib. VII. 123.
Two brasillatis
1540 Ib. 408.
For chenȝeis, ringis, … bracelattis … and vther gold wark
1549 Compl. 120/9.
I tuke … his brascheletis fra his armis
1578 Maxwell Mem. I. 313.
[Deponent] knawis na braissillet
1583 Edinb. Test. XII. 292 b.
Ane pair of bracelattis of gold estimat to xl li.
1612 Bk. Rates 292.
Bracelettis of coorall
1675 Carnegie Lett. & Chart. 358.
Ane pear of gold bracelleitts
(b) 1507 Treas. Acc. IV. 88.
Ane braslat quhilk the King gaif away to the Lady Mastres on New Ȝeir Day
15.. Clar. ii. 651.
He hir gave ane lustie braslet
1578 Maxwell Mem. I. 311.
Braslettis of gold
c1590 J. Stewart 79/221.
Ane braslat rair, quhilk gloriuslie did glance Vith diamonts decorde and rubeis fyne
1649 Wemyss Chart. 233.
An pair of ambir braslits
(c) 1546 Acta Conc. MS. XXII. 126 b.
Ane pair of braislettis of fyne gold
1549 Treas. Acc. IX. 269.
A pair of braislaittis
1550 Ib. 452.
For halsbedis, braislattis, and certane uthir gagis … to my Lady Anne
1574 Edinb. Test. III. 113.
To my dochter … ane pair of braisletis
1582 Treas. Acc. MS. 102.
Braislettis and vtheris goldsmyth wark
1591 Edinb. Test. XXIII. 48.
The braislettis, cheinȝie, and tablet of gold gevin to hir
1628 Soc. Ant. XXIII. 267.
Ane aggat breslet … ane pair of gold breislettis
1649 Wemyss Chart. 233.
An pair of koural brislits
1663–6 Thanes of Cawdor 321.
1 pr of blak breastlettis
1683 Wemyss Chart. 255.
A breslit of cornelians
(d) 15.. Clar. i. 450.
He … gave to hir ane braclet wroucht with gold
1628 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. ix. 42.
One pair of braiclettis
1688 Wemyss Chart. 257.
A Turkish braclett

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