Lexicographical Neighbors of Taffeties
Literary usage of Taffeties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615 by Richard Cocks, Edward Maunde Thompson (1883)
"4 pec. ordenary taffeties. fi pec. ruch taffeties. 15 pictures. 1 pec. ordenary
taffety. Also Capt. Whow sent me a letter with many frendly speeches, ..."
2. Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615 by Richard Cocks, Edward Maunde Thompson (1883)
"6 pec. ruch taffeties. lu pictures. 1 pec. ordenary taffety. Also Capt. Whow sent
me a letter with many frendly speeches, that he and what he had was at ..."
3. Lex Mercatoria: Or, A Complete Code of Commercial Law; Being a General Guide by Wyndham Beawes, Joseph Chitty (1813)
"... a drug serviceable in medicine, and for dying yellow silk, or thin taffeties,
red crape of Canton, gauze of the third sort, glass necklaces, vermilion, ..."
4. Scotland Before 1700: From Contemporary Documents by Peter Hume Brown (1893)
"For an ell iij quarters of blue taffeties of cord, to line the said gown with,
xxxj §. vj d. For fustian to line the sleeves and body of her gown, ..."
5. Social New York Under the Georges, 1714-1776: Houses, Streets, and Country by Esther Singleton (1902)
"... green, yellow, brown and embossed serges; plain Venetian, striped and flowered
poplins, black taffeties, ..."
6. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX. by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"... Damaske, taffeties, Gold Silver and what not; these bee the Abuses I speak
of, these bee the ... damasks taffeties notwithstanding they be base by ..."
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