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Quotation dates: 1704-1725
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†BUSTINE, BUSTEIN, Busten, n. Fustian cloth, a cotton fabric formerly used for waistcoats. Given for Ayrsh. in E. Picken Poems, etc. (1788), Gl. 226, bustine. Also used attrib.Sc. 1704 Account Bk. Sir J. Foulis (S.H.S. 1894) 357:
Aug. 14. to Hugh Cun., chapman, for 7 ells of bustein to be to me 2 waistcoats.Sc. 1725 Ramsay Gentle Shepherd Act I. Sc. i. in Poems (1728):
Neat, neat she was, in Bustine Waste-coat clean, As she came skiffing o'er the dewy Green.Ags. 1712 in A. Jervise Land of the Lindsays (1853) App. 343:
Six aprons and . . . four busten west coats.
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