sark

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"Deed it's an awkward thing, your reverence, and how ye are to gae hame in your sark sleeves, and your bald head to the win, I dinna see."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

Chemise, she-mēz′, n. a woman's shirt or sark, a smock or shift.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

‘When thou hast gotten thy turns well done, Then come to me and get thy sark then.’

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

For thou must shape a sark to me, 30 Ba, ba, &c.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Then Auld Anton made straight for John Gib himself, who stood back among his circle of women, conspicuous in his white sark and with a pistol in his hand.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)