white shirt

The lèine bhàn, literally meaning White Shirt, was a distinctive smock which transgressors of ecclesiastical law, in Scotland, were at one time obliged to wear in church during public worship on one or more Sundays – also called gùn odhar, and gùn na h-eaglaise.This article incorporates text from "Dwelly's [Scottish] Gaelic Dictionary" (1911).

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