or quarrome, quarron, subs. (old cant).—The body.—HARMAN (1567); DEKKER (1620); B. E. (c. 1696).

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  1377.  LANGLAND, Piers Plowman, B. xiv., 331.

        Ne noyther sherte ne shone · saue for shame one,
To keure my CAROIGNE.

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  c. 1450.  The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry, xxvii. (1868) 39. To aorne suche a CARION as is youre body.

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  c. 1508.  Colyn Blowbols Testament [HAZLITT, Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England, I. 96].

        First, I bequeth my goost that is bareyn,
Whan it is depertid from the CAREYNE.

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  1567.  HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors, 84. Bene Lightmans to thy QUARROMES, in what lipken hast thou lypped in this darkemans, whether in a lybbege or in the strummell?

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  1707.  Old Song, ‘The Maunder’s Praise of His Strowling Mort’ [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 33].

        White thy fambles, red thy gan,
  And thy QUARRONS dainty is.

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