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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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noun
a common stair in a tenement building:
...she and the boy went for a walk and when he took her back home, they stopped in a close not far from the house.
la19-
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etymology:
Scots; attested by
SS
and
ET