A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1515, 1627
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Tass(e, Tace, n.2 [e.m.E. tasse (a1548), tase (1579-80), tace (1581), OF tasse a purse.] = Taslet n. 1. — 1515 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 59.
Thir ar the harnes gevin in be inventour be Alane Cochran … tua greit tassis for justing [etc.] 1627 Kellie Pallas Armata (1627) 3A.
The armes which our picke-men are accustomed to carrie, are: a head-peace, or morion, a gorget or craige-peace, a corslet, or cuirace with taces
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