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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1574-1680
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Canarie, n. Also: canary, -aree, -erie; cannar(i)e; kenn-, kinnarie. Plur. kinairies. [e.m.E. Canarie(s), F. Canarie.] a. attrib. Of or from the Canary Islands. b. Canary wine. c. Also in plur. (e.m.E. Canaries id., 1592) as the name of the dance.a. 1574 Edinburgh Testaments III. 66 b.
Tuelf pund wecht of cannare succour 1574 Ib. 319.
Canary sucker 1604–5 Misc. Spald. C. V. 77.
Twa quartis Frensche wyne, and ane pynt Cannarie wyneb. 1640 Maxwell Mem. II. 276.
If thare bee good seke, canaree or malgoe, … bye ane but 1664 Household Bks. Abp. Sharp 11.
For vyne claret and kinnarie 1664 Ib. 11b.
For a quart of kennarie 1680 Foulis Acc. Bk. 19.
For a chopin canerie
c. ? 1655 Brittane's Late Letanie in Fugitive Poetry II. xxviii. 2/2.
Dansers of the old Kinairies
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