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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1847
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¶UPINGS, n.pl. A clean change of clothes, clothes after being cleaned and repaired.s.Sc. 1847 H. S. Riddell Poems 20:
But ye're o'er like our ain when they Come hame to get their up-ings.
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