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‖ duniwassal|ˈduːnɪˈwasəl|
Also duniwassel, -waisle, dunni-, duinnie-wassal, dhuine-, dunniwassel.
[Gael. duine uasal lit. gentleman, = duine man + uasal gentle, noble, well-born.]
A (Highland) gentleman; a gentleman of secondary rank, below the chief, a yeoman; a cadet of a family of rank.
c1565Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1814) 357 (Jam.) The king..caused many of the great Duny vassalis to shew thair holding. 1639Drummond of Hawthornden Consid. to Parlt. Wks. (1711) 187 That..the overseers of ministers, deacons and elders, be named duniwassels of the kirk. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 60 Though some, Sir, of our duniwaisles Stood out, like Eglinton and Cassils. 1802Scott Bonny Dundee viii, There are wild Duniewassals three thousand times three, Will cry hoigh! for the bonnet o' Bonny Dundee. 1814― Wav. xvi, His bonnet had a short feather, which indicated his claim to be treated as a Duinhé-Wassell or sort of gentleman. 1884Times 18 Mar. 7 The feathers..indicated gentility..the 42nd being duinnie⁓wassals, or small gentry. 1905Daily Chron. 7 July 5/7 Scottish Dhuine wassels with aggressive feathers in front of their Tam o' Shanter caps. 1920Blackw. Mag. Apr. 517/1 Kilted Hebridean dhuine-wassels. |