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Quotation dates: 1420-1615
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Garment, -mont, -mo(u)nd, n. Also: germount, -munt, garmounthe. [ME. garment (a 1350), reduced form of garnement (13 … ), OF. garne-, garniment.]
1. A garment.(a) c1420 Wynt. iii. 164.
Thretty garmentys hale He suld gyve thame to thare mede c1420 Ib. 169. ?1438 Alex. ii. 9722.
Sa mony ane riche garment Thare was defoulit, reuin and rent c1450-2 Howlat 630.
Quhat fele armes … The said persewant bure … On his garment so gay a1500 Doug. King Hart 565.
Quhair is thy garment grene and gudlie hew(b) 1513 Doug. i. ix. 126.
Ane rych garmont brusyt with stife gold wyre 1513 Ib. vii. Prol. 90.
In dowbill garmont cled and wily coyt 1559–60 Misc. Spald. C. V. 112.
For ane garmont and haillstand of claythis a1586 Lindsay MS. 73.
The suerde, speir & mas, and vtheris garmontis of irne(c) 1562-3 Winȝet I. 128/13.
The samin wes … cloikit with glistering ceremoneis of germountis 1562-3 Ib. II. 65/4.
Fals prophetis, that cumis to ȝou in the scheipis germunt 1562-3 Ib. 65/6.
Quhat is the germountis of the scheip … ?(d) a1500 Henr. III. 102/3.
I suld ane garmond gudliest Gar mak hir body till a1500 Prestis of Peblis 209.
Riche was his gownis, with uther garmondis gay 1513 Doug. i. xi. 32.
The precyus mantill and quent garmond 1513 Ib. viii. iii. 167.
Ane garmond he me gaif, or knychtly weid 1548 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 257.
To gif the Duchman, thair gunnar, fourty s. to by him ane garmond 1556 Protocol Book of Sir Alexander Gaw 37.
Ane new garmond to his body(e) 1540 Lynd. Sat. 735.
What sayis thou of my gay garmoun? 1529 Id. Complaynt 284.
The kyngis fule Gat dowbyll garmoundis agane the Ȝule 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 3373.
Aue garmound of the new I promeis ȝow 1560 Ib. 3539.
This Burges … promeist hir a goun, or ellis ane new garmoun 1567 Fleming Q. Mary 505.
Memorandum to be ane garmound … to Jeane de Compiegne a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 164 (Ch.).
His garmound and his gyis ful gay of gray
b. In fig. use, of verdure. a1500 Henr. Fab. 1687.
Quhen austerne Eolus … The grene garment of Somer glorious Hes all to rent 1513 Doug. xii. Prol. 77.
The cornys croppis and the beris new brerd With glaidsum garmont [Sm. garmond] revestyng the erd
2. A suit of clothes. 1566 Inverness B. Rec. I. 136.
To refound … ane garment of claise to his son a1578 Pitsc. II. 123/33.
Than was brocht to our lordis … the garmondis of the claithis of the ordour of the cockill 1587 Edinburgh Testaments XVII. 112 b.
Scho leuis to … Agnes Mathesone xx lib. and ane garmont of hir claythis 1590 Criminal Trials I. 198.
He suld giue him ane garmounthe of cleis for his travellis 1594 Treasurer's Accounts MS. b.
Ane garmond of claithis agane the baptisme of the prince 1615 Edinburgh Testaments XLIX. 11.
He leiues to … his servand ane garmont of claythis
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