An obsolete Scottish term for a large decorative cravat worn around the neck, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. The word is a Scots dialectal contraction of overlay. Now entirely historical and encountered only in period texts or Scottish dialect dictionaries.
The portrait showed him wearing a fine linen o'erlay folded neatly at his collar.
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(Scotland, obsolete) A large cravat.
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