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Quotation dates: 1488-1688
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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 Treasurer's Accounts I. 81.
A brassalet of gold sett with precious stanis 1488 Ib. 82.
A brasselat of gold 1538 Ib. VII. 123.
Two brasillatis 1540 Ib. 408.
For chenȝeis, ringis, … bracelattis … and vther gold wark 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 120/9.
I tuke … his brascheletis fra his armis 1578 Maxwell Mem. I. 313.
[Deponent] knawis na braissillet 1583 Edinburgh Testaments 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 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 88.
Ane braslat quhilk the King gaif away to the Lady Mastres on New Ȝeir Day 15.. Clariodus 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 Acts Lords of Council MS. XXII. 126 b.
Ane pair of braislettis of fyne gold 1549 Treasurer's Accounts IX. 269.
A pair of braislaittis 1550 Ib. 452.
For halsbedis, braislattis, and certane uthir gagis … to my Lady Anne 1574 Edinburgh Testaments III. 113.
To my dochter … ane pair of braisletis 1582 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 102.
Braislettis and vtheris goldsmyth wark 1591 Edinburgh Testaments XXIII. 48.
The braislettis, cheinȝie, and tablet of gold gevin to hir 1628 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries 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.. Clariodus 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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