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Scots
Noun
parochin (plural parochins)
- (obsolete) parish
1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. , volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor) (in English), Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. , →OCLC, pages 309–310:[S]he was the bonniest lass in our parochine and the neest till't.