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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1580-1685
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Bed-plaid, n. [Bed n.] A plaid used as a bed-cover. 1580 Coll. Aberd. & B. 391.
Item … of bed plaidis sevin 1596 Edinburgh Testaments XXIX. 321 b.
Tua pair of bed plaidis 1605 Ib. XL. 103 b.
Tuelf pair of bed plaidis with thrie pair of gray plaidis 1630 Bamff Chart. 223.
Of blankets and bed plaidis … sewintein pair 1642 Edinburgh Testaments LX. 145 b.
Tuelff pair bed plaidis 1685 Soc. A nt. LVIII. 355.
4 pair of bedplaids, one of them a stryped pair
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