sark

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Hir sark suld be hir body nixt, Of chestetie so quhyt, With schame and dreid togidder mixt, The same suld be perfyt.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

"Deed it's an awkward thing, your reverence, and how ye are to gae hame in your sark sleeves, and your bald head to the win, I dinna see."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

Shark and Sharkey I take to be the same name as Sere in the Liber Vitæ, from A.S. serc, Sco. "sark," shirt, in the sense of a shirt of mail.

From Surnames as a Science by Ferguson, Robert

She neist brought a sark o’ the saftest silk, Well wrought wi’ pearles about the ban’; Says, ‘Gin ye will be my ain true love, This goodly gift you sal comman’.’

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

There's ne'er a clean sark gae on my back, Nor yet a kame gae in my hair; There's neither coal nor candle licht55 Shall shine in my bouer for ever mair.

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various