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1497 in J. D. Marwick (1869) I. 71 This contagius seiknes callit the grandgor.
1497 in T. Dickson (1877) I. 356 Item, to ane woman with the grantgore..iij s. vj d.
1509 in M. Livingstone (1908) I. 274/2 To cure and hele the sade umquhile Lancelote of the infirmite of the grantgor.
1529 D. Lindsay 286 Ihone Makerery, the kyngis fule,..For his rewarde, gat the grand gore.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius (1858) II. 313 No canker, fester, gut, or ȝit grandgor.
1633 W. Lithgow sig. Ev His Lordship thanks the good grandgore.
1796 J. Townsend II. 298 In the year 1497, a proclamation appeared in Scotland, ordering all who laboured under the grand gore, to quit the continent.
1868 224/1 The island in 1497 was turned into a lazaretto for persons afflicted with a disease called ‘grandgore’.
1901 26 Oct. 1158/2 A terrible epidemic of ‘grandgore’, or French pox..was stamped out by deporting all the sick to the island of Inchkeith.
1953 30 May 1192/2 Syphilis..had spread to Scotland, where it was known as grandgore or grantgor.
1990 L. Mahood i. 20 During this time the first attempts to control ‘glengore’ or ‘grandgore’, common Scottish names for syphilis, were incorporated in two edicts.