tiffany

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  1. noun A thin, transparent gauze of silk or cotton muslin.

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  1. Probably from obsolete French tiphanie, Epiphany, from Old French, from Late Latin theophania; see theophany.

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  1. Early modern English also tiffiny, tiffeny, tiffenay; prob., like the surname Tiffany (from Middle English Tiffany, Tyffanie, etc., Middle Latin Tiffania, Teffania, Thifania. etc., a common feminine name), a reduction of theophany (Middle Latin theophania, theofania, etc.), equivalent to epiphany, with reference to the feast of Epiphany, the church festival also called Twelfth Day, concluding the Christmas holidays. The name as applied to a silk would thus mean ‘Epiphany silk,’ i. e. holiday silk; cf. Easter bonnet, i. e. spring bonnet; cf. also tawdry, applied orig. to lace sold at a fair held on the festival of St. Audrey.
 

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