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Definition of Tiffanies
1. tiffany [n] - See also: tiffany
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tiffanies
Literary usage of Tiffanies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"1, it is enacted, " that no foreign silk, crapes, or tiffanies of any description
whatever, (except of China or the £0*1 Indien, imported for exportation. ..."
2. Practical Abridgement of the Laws of Customs and Excise ...Commerce (1819)
"No foreign silk, crapes, or tiffanies, of any description BO Gro. 3. whatever,
except of China or the East Indies, imported for ex-c; ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius, in the Courts of King's by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Central Criminal Court (1827)
"... or tiffanies, or apparel, garment, furniture, or other materials, or who shall
sew, work, or make up any such crapes or tiffanies in Great Britain, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Laws of Commerce and Manufactures, and the Contracts by Joseph Chitty (1824)
"55., which was passed to prohibit the importation of Italian silk crapes (3) and
tiffanies, articles formerly allowed to be imported, (4) enacts, ..."
5. Mackenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts by Colin MacKenzie (1853)
"To -was/i and stain tiffanies. Let the lie-as of the tiffanies be at first only
a little soaped, then having a lather of soap, put them into it hot, ..."
6. The House-keeper's Pocket-book, and Compleat Family Cook: Containing Above by Sarah Harrison, Mary Morris (1760)
"In this Cafe the Hem) of your tiffanies muft ... and during its being hot, wet
your tiffanies therewith ..."
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