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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Buckasie, Bukkasy, n. Also: buckacy, -assy, -esie, -esy, buckcasy; buccassy, -asie, bucchasi; bukkase(y, -asie, -assie, -as(s)ye, -essie, -ess(e)y, bukcassi, -cassy; bukacy, -asie, -ess(i)e, -essy, -ysie. [Northern ME. bokesy, -esye (1485), F. boccacin, Sp. Bocací, of Oriental origin.] A kind of fine buckram.(a) 1473–4 Treas. Acc. I. 15.
Five quarteris of buckacy for a doublat to litil Bell 1474 Ib. 59.
v quarteris of buckcasy for ane vthir doublat 1509–10 Rentale Dunkeld. fol. 90.
Pro empcione quatuor vlnarum cum dim. lie buccassy 1566–7 Fleming Q. Mary 507.
Of bucchasi ij elle 1582 Treas. Acc. MS. 49.
Twa elnis … of quhyit buckassy 1592 Thanes of Cawdor 213.
Ane ell of blak buckesy 1612 Bk. Rates 292.
Buckasie, the peice 1616 Stirling B. Rec. I. 144.
Merchand waris, sic as silk, … fustianes, buckesie 1630 Peebles B. Rec. 370.
Ane mortclayth, being of fyne black claith lynit throw with blak buckasie 1632–3 Misc. Spald. C. V. 104.
For furnitour … of small pesments, buccasie, and some welwet 1635 Haddington Corr. 303.
Ane buccasie cover(b) 1473 Treas. Acc. I. 55.
To by bukacy and hos to Bell hensman Ib.
To the said hensmen … vj elne … of bukcasy for v doublatis 1474 Ib. 60.
To Caldwele of the Queynis chalmire, v quarteris of bukcassy 1478 Acta Aud. 83/1.
A doublat of bukkessy with a wyle cot of quhit in it 1486 Old Dundee II. 30.
The deacon … has ordainit … that neither the said mess buke … nor the vestment of bukkasy … be analyt 1508–9 Rentale Dunkeld. fol. 75.
Alloc. eidem pro empcione nouem decim vlnarum bukessy 1539 Treas. Acc. VII. 58.
For four elnis of bukesse to perfurnes the saidis claithis 1566–7 Fleming Q. Mary 508.
Ane steik of quhyte bukkase 1582 Treas. Acc. MS. 49.
Blak bukkassye 1584 Edinb. Test. XIV. 132.
xix elnis of quhyt & gray bukcasie 1590 Thanes of Cawdor 197.
For the sowing of tua pair of silk schankis with gray bukysie 1593 Edinb. Test. XXV. 225.
Ane steik of bukkasie 1597 Bk. Rates 3.
Bukessie the stik 1615 Thanes of Cawdor 239.
Bukasie to lyne the taillis and be puchis