10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WYLIECOAT»
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The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life
Wrong— to wrong. " With rycht or wrang it hav wald thae." . Barbour. Wreeth. A
drifted heap of snow. " Anes she lay a week or langer, Underneath a wreeth o'
snaw." . . Skinner. Wyliecoat. A flannel vest. " The bride in wylie coat sac braw,
Sat on ...
Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham, 1834
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Poems of the English race
2 grozet. Gooseberry. 3 rotet. Resin. 4 smeddum. Powder. 5 droddum. Back. 6
flainen toy. Flannel cap. 7 aiblens. Perhaps. 8 duddie. Ragged. 9 wyliecoat. Vest,
Io Lunardi. Balloon-bonnet. 11 lea'e. Leave. 12 sleekit. Sleek. 13 bickering brattle
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Raymond Macdonald Alden, 1921
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The Complete Costume Dictionary
See also saffeh. Wurtenburg frock: Directoire and First Empire (1790— 1815 CE.)
Fashionable in 1813, dress or gown fastened in front under trim forming a jacket-
like appearance. Featured long lace sleeves. wyliecoat: Scotland. Petticoat ...
Elizabeth J. Lewandowski, 2011
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The English Dialect Dictionary: T-Z. Supplement. ...
Wile, sb.2 WYLIECOAT, sb. Sc. Irel. Nhb. Dur. Cum. Also written wiley- N.I.1 ; wili-
Dur. ; wilie- Sc. (Jam.) ; wily- Sc. Nhb.1 ; wyle- N.Cy.1 ; wyli- Gall. ; and in forms
waalaquyte, walaquyte Bnff.1 ; waly-coat Sc. (Jam.) Ir.; weily-Sc. ; wellicot Sh.L; ...
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Wile, sb.2 WYLIECOAT, sb. Sc. Irel. Nhb. Dur. Cum. Also written wiley- N.I.'; wili-
Dur. ; wilie- Sc. (JAM.) ; wilySc. Nhb.'; wyle- N.Cy.'; wyli- GalL; and in forms
waalaquyte, walaquyte Bnt'i'.l ; waly-coat Sc. (JAM.) Ir.; weily- Sc. ; wellicot Sh.l.; ...
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The English dialect dictionary
An under-vest or under-petticoat; a llannel shirt; a child's nightdress. See Wylly.
Sc. (_IAM.) ; A wife knows enough, who know the good man's brecks from
wcilycoat, KELLY Prov. (1721) 54; \Ve can shape our bairns' wyliecoat. but canna
shape ...
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Transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society
For Walter Robel he made " a wast Cote and wilicot gramachies and 3 sarks." A
wyliecoat, then, is something extra to a suit, perhaps an under waistcoat or a
sleeved waistcoat, which does not seem to require a lining and which may be
made ...
Hawick Archaeological Society, 1966
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Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect ... A new edition, ...
... an auld wife's flainen toy; R2 0:, Or aiblins some bit dnddie boy, On's wyliecoat';
vr But Miss's 195'
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The Works: In Four Volumes
Wrong. Wrong—to wrong. “ With rycht or wrang it hav wald thae.” Barbour. ll reetlt
. A drifted heap of snow. “ Anes she lay a week or langer, Underneath a wreeth o'
snaw.” ~ Skinner. Wyliecout. A flannel vest. “ The bride in wyliecoat sae braw, ...
Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham, 1835
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Waverley Novels: Old Mortality ; [1]
He's in the tolbooth, mother—he's in the Heart of Mid-Louden for a thousand
merk he borrowed from Saunders Wyliecoat the writer.” “ Poor man I” exclaimed
Mrs Elliot, “ can we no send him something, Hobbie ?” “ Ye forget, grannie, ye
forget ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WYLIECOAT»
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Shaun Wylie
His nom-de-plume for The Listener was Petti, "wyliecoat" being an old Scottish term for a petticoat. He was also an accomplished chess and bridge player, and a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 09»
