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† Drap-de-Berry Obs.
Also droppe-, drape-, drab-, -du-, -Berri(e, -berry, -ie, -bure. (Printed as one or three words).
[Fr.; = cloth of Berry.]
A kind of woollen cloth, coming from Berry in France. Also attrib. and Comb.
1619Purchas Microcosmus xxvii. 269 The Colours of Gingelline, Grideline, Deroy, Elderado, Droppe du Berry. 1664J. Wilson Cheats ii. iv Dram. Wks. (1874) 42 Drape de berry in the summer keeps out the heat. 1681Lond. Gaz. No. 1585/4 Stolen..a Drabdeberry Riding Coat. 1693Shadwell Volunteers iii. Wks. 1720 IX. 441 They turn it into Drabdubbery. 1700Congreve Way of World iii. iii. Plays (1887) 361 Fools never wear out—they are such drap de Berri things! 1818Scott Rob Roy xxxi, Your rotten French camlets now, or your drab-de-berries. |