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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
scarlet .
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Examples
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But they weare Iackets framed after a strange manner, of buckeram, skarlet, or Baldakines.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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That is to saye a kirtle of skarlet, a robe of Purple, a sceptre, and a close corone.
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The first day they were all clad in white, but the second in skarlet robes.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Emperors maiestie hauing on him a gowne of rich tissue, and a cap of skarlet on his head, set not only with pearles, but also with a great number of rich and costly stones: his noble men were all in gownes of cloth of gold, which did ride before him in good order by
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The first day they were all clad in white, but the second in skarlet robes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The skarlet 17. li 13. s 6. d., the cottons at 9. li.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Lord the king that now is, by vertue of the saide great charter, graunted liberty vnto them to pay the customes of certain clothes, namely of skarlet, and cloth died in grayne, and of other clothes of assise, which were by them to be caried out of the realme of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But they weare Iackets framed after a strange manner, of buckeram, skarlet, or Baldakines.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I showd Karla sum brch bark I'd pEld off a trE outside Bildng 9 & she showd me sum skarlet soomak lEvz she had found in the 4St.
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
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The Byshoppe so to do agreed withe alle hys herte; and, agayne the Kynges comeng to Sent Michel Churche, the Meyre and his Peres, cladde in skarlet gowns, wenton unto the Kynges
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse
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