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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
taffeta .
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Examples
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A carpett of crimson velvet, richlie embr. with my Lo. posie, beares and ragged staves, etc., of clothe of goulde and silver, garnished upon the seames and aboute with golde lace, fringed accordinglie, lyned with crimson taffata sarsenett, being 3 breadths of velvet, one yard 3 quarters long.
Kenilworth 2004
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The ceelor, vallance, and curteins lyned with crymson taffata sarsenet.
Kenilworth 2004
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What a procession! her red damask, — her orange tawney, — her white and yellow lutestrings, — her brown taffata, — her bone-laced caps, her bed-gowns, and comfortable under-petticoats. —
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The 7 of August we had sight of a litle ship which wee chased towards Tercera with our pinasse (the weather being calme) and towards euening we ouertooke her, there were in her 30 tunnes of good Madera wine, certaine woollen cloth, silke, taffata, &c.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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What a procession! her red damask, — her orange tawney, — her white and yellow lutestrings, — her brown taffata, — her bone - laced caps, her bed-gowns, and comfortable under-petticoats. —
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Another hanging of white taffata, with the Passion of Christ.
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Then thou shalt have a taffata hat and a guarded gown, and I a gown and a new cap, and a silk doublet, and a fair hose [260].
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Church may appear to be yours; where, in view of all, you may publish your suit in what manner you affect most, either with the slide of your cloake from the one shoulder, and then you must (as twere in anger) suddenly snatch at the middle of the inside (if it be taffata at the least) and so by the meanes your costly lining is betrayed, or else by the pretty advantage of complement.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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He generally wore a doublet and breeches of satin, slashed and lined with coloured taffata; and walked about with a gilliflower in one hand, and his gloves in the other.
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A carpett of crimson velvet, richlie embr. with my Lo. posie, beares and ragged staves, etc., of clothe of goulde and silver, garnished upon the seames and aboute with golde lace, fringed accordinglie, lyned with crimson taffata sarsenett, being 3 breadths of velvet, one yard 3 quarters long.
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
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