Sc. Also 9 laby, lebbie. [Of obscure origin; cf. Gael. leòbag ‘little shred or fragment’ (McL. & D.); also LAP sb.1] A loose garment or wrap; the lappet or skirt of a coat.
c. 1597. Satir. Poems Reform., xliii. 190. The hirdis and hinde men in their labeis lay.
1811. A. Scott, Poems, Country Smiddy, 68 (Jam.). His new coat labey.
1825–80. Jamieson, Lebbie, the lap or fore-skirt of a man’s coat.
1890. J. Service, Thir Notandums, iv. 20. The labies o’ his Sark.
