† scarleteern.
Obsolete.
One clothed in scarlet, as a soldier in uniform, or a doctor in the gown of his degree.
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1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 142 Then say (faire Lady) truth I doe not jeere, Will you be wedded to a scarleteere?
1677 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 386 The chancellour, with the bedells before him and the scarleteers after him.
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