"semmit" meaning in Scots

{
  "etymology_text": "From medieval cloth samite (see velvet).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "semmits",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1948, Hector Charles Cameron, Joseph Lister, the Friend of Man, W. Heinemann, page 7",
          "text": "Once on returning from a visit to the hospital he told us that an old man had spoken of his semmet, the Scots for what an Englishman calls his vest.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1962, Jessica Brett Young, Francis Brett Young: A Biography, Heinemann, page 160",
          "text": "He made a grotesque figure — all inhibitions gone — in sadly shrunken white flannel trousers and cotton vest (his 'wee semmit').",
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        },
        {
          "english": "BBC Voices Recording: Dunbar document 1431.",
          "text": "'Put yer semmit on', it's a mair a winter"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "singlet, vest"
      ],
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          "singlet"
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          "vest"
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        {
          "word": "simmet"
        },
        {
          "word": "semmet"
        },
        {
          "word": "simit"
        },
        {
          "word": "semat"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/sɪmət/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "semmit"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From medieval cloth samite (see velvet).",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        },
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          "text": "'Put yer semmit on', it's a mair a winter"
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        "singlet, vest"
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          "singlet"
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      "ipa": "/sɪmət/"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "simmet"
    },
    {
      "word": "semmet"
    },
    {
      "word": "simit"
    },
    {
      "word": "semat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "semmit"
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