Elphyne

Elphyne

1. alternative form of Elfame
   • 1583, Robert Sempill, Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation, Vol. 1‎^[1], page 365:

     Ane carling of the quene of phareis, That ewill win geir to elphyne careis (Poem 45, v.372)

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• “Elphyne”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 30 January 2017, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.