Sc. rare. [Of obscure origin.]
1. A bride’s outfit of clothes; a trousseau.
168[?]. in Morison, Decis. Crt. Sess., 10436. Andrew Littlejohn pursues the Duchess of Monmouth her curator for payment of a taylor’s account taken off by the Duchess for her marriage sow.
1887. Jamieson’s Suppl., Add., Sou, sowe, a bride’s outfit or braws…. This term is now used only by the fisher-folk of the N.E. of Scot. from Nairn to Buckie.
2. A burial garment; a shroud.
1763. ‘Theophilus Insulanus,’ Second Sight, 18. The same girl died of a fever, and as there was no linen in the place but what was unbleached, it was made use of for her sowe.
