tarlatans

The company began to arrive at 8 P.M. The young ladies were mostly attired in colored tarlatans, prettily trimmed with lace and flowers.

Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

Clementina Gray, in tarlatans and flowers, had been a great beauty; and Clementina Kurston, in silks and diamonds, was a woman dedicated, by Nature for conquest.

Winter Evening Tales Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

She was not in a frame of mind to sustain tarlatans, barege, the history of the last hop, and the prophecies of the next; the wounded deer shrunk from its gamboling associates, and indeed from all strangers, except John Meadows.

It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849