Dyvour

Dyvour (from the Fr. devoir, 'to owe;' 'a debtor'), in the old legal language of Scotland, was a bankrupt who under various acts from 1606 to 1696 was until discharged compelled to wear a hideous and conspicuous costume. Thus an act of 1688 prescribes as the dyvour's habit 'a bonnet, partly of a brown and partly of a yellow colour, with uppermost hose, or stockings, on his legs, half brown and half yellow coloured, conform to a pattern delivered to the magistrates of Edinburgh.' The barbarous usage had fallen into desuetude long ere the dyvour's habit was abolished by law in 1836.