rokelay

"rokelay," or Tartan plaid, of matrons of the olden time, old Simon wore

The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern Jules Verne 1866

Glendinning aside, she charged him, “to be moderate with the puir body, but at all events, not to forget to take a piece of black say, to make the auld wife a new rokelay.”

The Monastery 2008

He took the cloak, however, and proceeding with the provident caution of a spaniel hiding a bone, concealed it among some furze and carefully marked the spot, observing that, if he chanced to return that way, it would be an excellent rokelay for his auld mother Elspat.

Waverley 2004

Madge was dressed in the fashion of days gone by, wearing the “toy” and the “rokelay,” or

The Underground City 2003

Madge was dressed in the fashion of days gone by, wearing the "toy" and the "rokelay," or Tartan plaid, of matrons of the olden time, old Simon wore a coat of which Bailie Nicol Jarvie himself would have approved.

The Underground City 1877

He took the cloak, however, and proceeding with the provident caution of a spaniel hiding a bone, concealed it among some furze, and carefully marked the spot, observing, that if he chanced to return that way, it would be an excellent rokelay for his auld mother Elspat.

The Waverley 1877

It is not the firmest heart (and Jeanie, under her russet rokelay, had one that would not have disgraced Cato's daughter) that can most easily bid adieu to these soft and mingled emotions.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

` ` It was neither scarlet nor sky-blue, but my ain auld brown threshie-coat of a short-gown, and my mother's auld mutch, and my red rokelay --- and he gied me

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

` ` True, '' said the official person; ` ` a brown short-gown, mutch, red rokelay --- that agrees with your Madge Wildfire,

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

It would appear that the lady never doubted what was to be the event of this compact, for, taking Glendinning aside, she charged him, "to be moderate with the puir body, but at all events, not to forget to take a piece of black say, to make the auld wife a new rokelay."

The Monastery Walter Scott 1801