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scavilones
† scavilones, n. pl. Obs. rare. [Of obscure origin: cf. scabilonian.] ‘Long drawers worn under the hose by men in Queen Elizabeth's time’ (J. R. Planché Cycl. Costume 1876, I. 447).1577 Holinshed Chron. II. 1859/2 Nayler put off hys nether stockes, and so bare foote and bare legged saue hys silke sc...
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scabilonian
† scabiˈlonian Obs. [Cf. scavilones.] A contemptuous term for some kind of garment.1600 T. Hill Quartron Reas. Cath. Relig. xvi. 86 Did not all these new-fashioned attyres, come in with your new religion?..your Gallegascones, your Scabilonians..and a thousand such new deuised Luciferian trinckets. S...
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scaling
▪ I. † ˈscaling, n. Obs. [Of obscure origin; ? cf. scavilones.] Some kind of garment.1577 Eccl. Proc. of Bp. Barnes (Surtees) 17 Great britches gascogne hose, scalings, nor any other like monstrous and vnsemely apparell.▪ II. scaling, vbl. n.1 (ˈskeɪlɪŋ) [f. scale v.1 + -ing1.] The action of weighin...
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