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saulie Sc. Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈsɑlɪ|
Also saullie, sawlie, sal(l)ie, saly, sauley.
[Of obscure origin; perh. short for some comb. of saul soul.]
A hired mourner at a funeral.
1621Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 626/1 That no duillweidis be givin to herauldis, Trumpetoris or saullies Except by the Earlis and lordis and thair wyffes And the number of the saullies to be according to þe number of duilweiddis. 1654in C. Rogers Soc. Life Scotl. (1884) I. v. 161 [(Funeral of Earl of Buccleuch.) In front marched forty-six] salies [or hired mourners with hoods and bearing black staves]. 1773R. Fergusson Poems (1800) 169 How come mankind, whan lacking woe, In Saulie's face their hearts to show? 1815Scott Guy M. xxxvii, And then the funeral pomp set forth; saulies with their batons, and gumphions of tarnished white crape. 1864in R. Paul Mem. xix. (1872) 304, I see in imagination a tall unbendable fellow..grave as a sauley. 1898W. Drysdale Old Faces 47 When hearses came into fashion, people of distinction were conveyed therein, and were preceded by ‘saulies’. |