blue-gown

` ` I will tell you, Maister Poinder Aikwood Ringan, just dat old miscreant dog villain blue-gown, as you call Edie

The Antiquary 1845

"I will tell you, Maister Poinder Aikwood Ringan, just dat old miscreant dog villain blue-gown, as you call Edie Ochiltrees."

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

"I will tell you, Maister Poinder Aikwood Ringan, just dat old miscreant dog villain blue-gown, as you call Edie Ochiltrees."

The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

“I will tell you, Maister Poinder Aikwood Ringan, just dat old miscreant dog villain blue-gown, as you call Edie Ochiltrees.”

The Antiquary 1584

= Ochiltree = (_Old Edie_), a king’s bedesman or blue-gown.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

"Gin I had a true freen the noo! to gang down the wynd, an 'find if it war but an auld Abraham o' a blue-gown, wi 'a bit crowd, or a fizzle-pipe, to play me the Bush aboon Traquair!

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847