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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1513-1628
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Cullourit, Cullorit, ppl. a. Also: culloryt, -ored, culouret, cull(o)ured, cullerit. [Variant of Colourit ppl. a.]
1. Coloured; of a specified colour. 1513 Doug. xii. Prol. 112.
Sum [buds] hevynly culloryt in celestiall gre 1513 Ib. ii. 32.
Kyndland mar large the red culloryt bewte 1606 Criminal Trials II. 508.
Ane ryding cloik and skirt of broun cullerit claith 1612 Bk. Rates 326.
Sayes of Flanders making cullored 1616 Colquhoun Chart. 392.
Ane dwn hors, and broune cullorit meir, twa tydie ky blak cullorit 1618 Edinburgh Testaments L. 163 b.
Thrie steikis cullorit camblet
2. Specious, plausible, pretended.(a) 1531 Bell. Boece II. 371.
The hasty fleing of Inglismen was nocht bot cullorit fraude a1578 Pitsc. I. 40/20.
Nocht wnderstanding na cullorit wordis and offeris 1581 Cath. Tr. 82/14.
Dissauit be the ministers fair cullorit argumentis 1585 Acts III. 414/1.
To annalie … the landis … be simulat and cullerit venditioun 1607 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs II. 235.
Pretending sum cullorit richtis thairto 1626 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 270.
The samyne was allanerlie ane cullorit richt(b) (a1568 Dunb.) Bannatyne MS 266 a/21.
Quhat … offens That wemen dois be cullourit eloquens 1596 Dalr. II. 450/13.
Thair elegant termes, thair culouret wordes, and brauate in rethorick 1622-6 Bisset I. 86/19.
Without any maner of … cullured fraude 1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II. 524.
A culloured show of obedience
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