† slyren.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A fine kind of linen or lawn. Also slyre-lawn.
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1621 Sc. Acts, Jas. VI (1816) IV. 626/1 That no persoun..weare vpoun þair bodies tifneis, Cobwebe, Lanes, or Slyires.
1661 Sc. Acts, Chas. II (1820) VII. 254 Slyreland [= -lawn] ilk hundreth ells, three ounces.
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