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Wais(t)co(i)t, Was(t)co(i)t(t, n. Also: waist(e-, vaist-, wast(e-, west-, weast(e-, vais-, was-, wes-, wis-, ueis- and -coitt, -cot(t)(e, -coat(e, -coatt, -koitt, -kot. [e.m.E. waste cotte (1519), wastcote (1538), wastcoate (1603), wasecoat (1617), wascoat (1648), waistcoat (1688).] A garment worn on the upper body by both men and women as part of their daily attire, a waistcoat; also applied to a garment worn under a night gown.(a) 1575 Dumfries B. Ct. 25 Oct.
Waist-cotte 1611 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 92b.
Goun waistcoit and skirt 1620 Edinb. Test. L 352a.
Ane imbroderit waistcoit price fyftie thrie pundis vi s. viii d. 1626 Edinb. Test. LIV 25b.
Ane waistcot of naine so prettie 1635 Black Bk. Taymouth xxii.
vi ells of Beircorie to be him vaistcotis 1643 Dumfries B. Ct. 19 Aug.
Ane pair of blak camlett taillis containing aucht ells … , ane small lyenis kemeis new waiste cotte 1668 Craven Ch. in Orkney I 36.
An old out worne waist coat, scarce worth 12 s.(b) 1611 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 92a.
For the making of ȝour waiscot 13 s. 9 d. 1629 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B 6b.
Maid to ȝour wyfe ane waiscoit of perropus with twa paismentis 1629 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B 6b.
Maid to ȝour wyfe ane waiscoit of novata. For kneittingis to the waiscoit, iiij s. 1631 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B 11.
For making ane waiscoit to ȝour doichter with twa reairpyntis 1663–6 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp MS 486.
For a wowen vaiscoat and draweris £14 6 s.(c) 1611 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 96a.
Wastcoit c1633 Buccleuch Mun. II 279.
Ane quhyt nicht wastcot, with ane old satin day wastcot 1671 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct.) 11 Feb.
Two wast coates, and a shirt 1672 Rothesay B. Rec. 231.
Wastcoitt 1675 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct.) 24 March.
I leive … to Bessie Carsan … ane wastcoat and ane wylie coat and the rest of hir bodie cloathes 1688 Tryal Philip Standsfield 27.
She was affrighted to see the said coat and waste-coat; for she thought that some evil spirit was in it(d) 1611 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 96a.
Wascoit 1645 Edinb. Test. LXI 145a.
Ane quhyt plusche wascoat 1667–70 Lauder Jrnl. 180.
For a fusting wascoat … 5 s.(e) c1614 Laing MSS 138.
Ane westcoitt of cramesen tafetie 1626 Edinb. Test. LIII 209b.
Ane quhyt wyllicoit with ane westcot effeirand thairto 1662 Haigs of Bemersyde 472.
For a westcott 1670 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct.) 15 July.
Westcoat 1675 Cunningham Diary 58.
For 4 dozen buttons to a west coat 10 s. … For 6 drop of silk to make the sd west coat 10 s. 1677 Brechin Test. VII 3b.
Ane west coatt thretein shilling four pennies 1679 Cunningham Diary 111.
For the cloath of my winter westcoat(f) 1633 Edinb. Test. LVI 105a.
Ane gowne of satene seybumbasie with ane wescott and skirtt 1704 Sc. Ant. I 129.
A plaiding wescott with a broune cloath wescoatt 1644 Edinb. Test. LXI 38a.
Thrie gounes with thair wescots(g) 1648 Edinb. Test. LXIV 12a.
Four weastcoatts estimat all to aught punds 1653 Soc. Ant. XXIII 303.
Ane imbrodered weastecoate 1659 Craven Ch. in Orkney II 198.
A old neight weastcoat(h) 1649 Wemyss Chart. 232.
The nou klothe of siluir, sould bei an ueiskoitt, and the noue quheitt saitin, sould bei an ueiskot(i) 1683 Edinb. City Archives Letters II (19).
I wrot to Mary to cause her give Georg Watson advece how to make the wiscotes they weir below a night gowne
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