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Popil(l, adj.1 [? MDu. and MLG popel n. the common people, or ? nonce f. L. popul-us people.] ? Of the common people, plebeian. = Popular adj. 1. — 1531 Bell. Boece (M) I 166.
To Forfair quhair sum tyme was ane strang castell … quhair sindry kingis of Scottis maid residence … thocht it be now ane popill tovn [1821, bot ane popil town; L. nunc in vicum redactum]
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