Citations:houss

English citations of houss

• 1601, F. Tate, Household Ord. Edw. II 56 (1876), 40:

  He shal [...] carri the houche of those horses the kinge shal be mounted on.

• 1687, A. Lovell, Trevenot's Trav. I, 86:

  A stately horse, covered with a housse all embroidered with gold.

To cover with a houss.

• 1658 October 22, Evelyn, Diary, quoted in e.g. 1881, Alexandre Beljame, Quae e Gallicis verbis in Anglicam linguam Johannes Dryden introduxerit, page 50:

  A velvet bed of state drawn by six horses, houss'd with the same. (Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 22, 1658.)

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Scots citations of houss

Scots? or English?

• c. 1510, William Dunbar, Poems lxi, 21, as quoted in 1907, The Poems of William Dunbar, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary, page 139:

  Thocht in the stall I be nocht clappit, / As cursouris that in silk beine trappit, / With ane new houss I wald be happit, / Aganis this Crysthinmes […]