Lexicographical Neighbors of Awmrie
Literary usage of Awmrie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"awmrie, a chest, a cabinet, a secretaire ; from the French ... Close the awmrie,
steek the kist, Or else some gear will soon be missed. ..."
2. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"Gang to your awmrie, gin ye please, And bring frae there a yow-milk cheese.
And syne bring here a sharping-stanc, We'll sharp our whittles ilka ane. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1877)
"... a word which is still current in Scotland as " awmrie ; " but it was in its
Portuguese form almario, said to be from the Latin ..."
4. The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Walter Scott (1878)
"... until the day before the term, when, observing the bustle of moving furniture
already commenced, the great east-country awmrie dragged out of its nook, ..."
5. Spare Hours by John Brown (1866)
"Steek the awmrie, lock the kist, Else some gear will sune be mist; Donald Caird
finds orra things Where Allan Gregor fand the tings: ..."
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