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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1569-1628
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Parcell-, Percell-, Partiall-gilt, a. Also: persell-, persiall-, -syall- and -gylt. [e.m.E. and late ME. (1465) parcell-gilt, -gylte, e.m.E. also parsyll- (1576), partial(1620); with the forms in part- cf. Part n. and Partial(l a.] Of silverware: Parcel-gilt, partly gilded, ‘having the inner surface gilt’.(a) 1569 Protocol Book of J. Drummond MS. 77.
Tua trunschewris of siluer persiall gilt 1573 Reg. Privy C. II. 269.
Partiall gilt 1604 Deed of Mortif. (Jam., s.v.).
Persyall-gylt 1610 Edinburgh Testaments XLVI. 166 b.
The persiall gilt Flanderis peice 1628 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XXIII. 267.
Sextein pund wecht of silverwark pairtlie gilt and pairtlie partiall gilt(b) 1610 Edinburgh Testaments XLVI. 166 b.
Tua siluir persell gilt canes 1610 in Hist. Kinloss A. xii.
6 persell gilt plattis 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 324.
Parcell gilt 1615 Haddington Mem. II. 288.
Percell gilt
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