tiffany
nouncommon in dialogue
A kind of gauze, or very thin silk.
noun
- 1
A kind of gauze, or very thin silk.
[…] the smoak of sulphur will not black paper, and is commonly used by Women to whiten Tiffanies […]
Reduce all to a very fine Powder, searsing the same through a Tiffany Searse, as you should the former.
1792, Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey; or, the Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act III, Scene 1, p. 34, […] he made me throw away my peasant weeds, and gave me all these fine cloaths. See this tiffany, all spotted with silver; look at this beautiful turban—He gave it me all!
When, however, the matin loving lark, or ruſſet pinions, floating amid the tiffany clouds, that variegated, in fleecy undulation, the grey-inveſted heavens, hailed with his ſoul-reviving note, the radient countenance of returning morn; […]
Etymology
From an Anglo-Norman common name for the festival of the Epiphany. See Tiffany.
Forms
- plural
- tiffanies
tiffany · A kind of gauze, or very thin silk.
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