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Ragman rolls

/ ˈræɡmən /

plural noun

  1. history a set of parchment rolls of 1296 enumerating the Scottish nobles who owed allegiance to Edward I of England, important as the only full list of the nobility of Scotland in the later 13th century


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Ragman rolls1

C18: from obsolete ragman in the sense: statute, roll, list

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