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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1583-1683
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Tuftit, Tuft, ppl. adj. Also: tufted, tufftit, tuffte, tuffit(t, tiftit, -ed, teifteit, teifftit. [17th c. Eng. tufted (1606). Cf. Tuft(e n. a.] Of cloth: Having a tuft-like pile.(a) 1593 Edinburgh Testaments XXV 51a.
xx elnis tuft burret 1593 Edinburgh Testaments XXV 51b.
Four elnes Flemis tuffit birret 1596 Edinburgh Testaments XXIX 295a.
Tua elneis & ane half tuffitt burret c1614 Laing MSS 137.
Sax yeardis … of cramesen tuftit tafetie 1617 Edinburgh Testaments L 37b.
xv elnis tuftit canves 1635 Edinburgh Testaments LVII 55a.
Ane hundreth sextene elnes … of tuft taffettie 1652 Thanes of Cawdor 310.
Tufftit 1680 Blackness Customs 5b.
Ane mat contenand tuenty peices tufted holand(b) 1597 Halyb. cxiii.
Canwes callit tiftit canues 1683 Inv. in Donibristle Mun. (Earl of Moray's MSS) 16 (9-10 May).
Tuo pillowes covered with tifted holland(c) c1644 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B 65a.
To ȝour wyfe ane waiscoit an pair of bodyeis & sleiweis of teifteit hoeillin c1644 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B 65a.
Teifftit hoilleing
b. Having, ornamented with, tufts.1583 Cal. Sc. P. VI 512.
[A new cloak of French tauny laced and] tuffte [with silk] 1611 Mar & Kellie MSS 67.
28 doosen of buttons tufted to the jerkin, dublet sleeves, and flap of the hose
