[f. STOLE sb.1]

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  1.  trans. To provide (an altar, a church) with altar-stoles: see STOLE sb.1 2 d.

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c. 1475.  Crabhouse Reg. (1889), 60. The Prioresse … pathed the chirche and the quere, and stolid it,… the veyl of the chirche with the auter-clothes in sute cost xl s.

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1848.  B. Webb, Cont. Ecclesiol., 165. A most singular altar is shewn in this window, stoled both in front and in the side. Ibid., 343. Several frontals are merely painted; but I remarked that they represented superfrontals properly fringed and stoled.

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  2.  [See STOLED ppl. a.]

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