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Quotation dates: 1603-1677
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Tiffany(e, -ie, n. Also: tiffenie, -inie, -eine, tiphanie, tifne, -y, tefeni. [17th c. Eng. tiffanie (1601), tifnie (1606), tiffiny (a1624).] A thin, transparent material, silk, muslin or lawn. Also attrib. with lane (Laun(e n.).(a) 1610 Edinburgh Testaments XLVI 83b.
xxv ellis tiphanie at xvi s. the clue 1611 Edinburgh Testaments XLVI 320.
xx ell tiffanye at x s. the ell 1618 Edinburgh Testaments L 133.
Ane steik of tiffanie price aucht pundis 1620 Edinburgh Testaments L 352b.
Fourtie tua elnis and peis of and cutit remanes of tiffenie at thrie schillingis the elne 1621 Acts IV 626/1.
Anent banqueting and apparell … that no persoun whatsoeuir weare vpoun thair bodies tifneis cobwebe lanes or slyires 1628 Edinburgh Testaments LIV 273b.
Tiffinie at xvj s. the elne 1640 Household Bk. M. Stewart 39.
Tifny 1642 Edinburgh Testaments LX 41b.
Fourtene ellis of tiffanie and birdis eye at xxij s. the ell 1647 Edinburgh Testaments LXIII 34.
Quhyt tiffeine 1677 Cunningham Diary 96.
For ane ell, wanting a nail, of tiffany to my wife [£2 8 s. 8 d.](b) 1603 Montgomery Mem. II 245.
For ten quarteris of tefeni to be me ane skarf, iiii s.attrib. 1620 Edinburgh Testaments L 352.
Thrie peisis of tiffanie lane contening xxxvj elnis
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