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† ˈtamis Obs.
Also 7 tamise, 9 tammis: see also tammy n.2
[a. F. tamis (tami) a sieve (of wire, silk, hair, etc.) (12th c. in Littré) = Pr. tamis, Sp. tamiz, It. tamigio, Ven. tamiso, med.L. tamisium (Du Cange), identical in origin with WGer. *tamisjo-, the source of OE. and MLG. tęmes sieve, MDu. tęmse, OHG. zemisa: see temse.]
1. A sieve; a strainer or bolting-cloth; also tamis-bolter, tamis-cloth.
1601Holland Pliny xviii. xi. I. 567 The best bread is of the finest wheat floure, which hath passed through a small tamis bulter. Ibid. xxii. xxv. II. 142 If they be halfe sodden in water..then let passe through a tamise, that the brans might be separate. 1698M. Lister Journ. to Paris (1699) 141 This Stone is beat to Powder, and sifted through a fine Tamis. 1801J. Mollard Art of Cookery (1836) 169 Rub them through a tamis cloth or sieve. 1817W. Kitchiner Cook's Oracle (1818) 244 Strain it through a tammis into a clean stewpan. Ibid. 280 note, A Tammis is a worsted cloth,..made on purpose for straining sauces. [Cf. p. 230, a tammy, or fine sieve.]
2. A name for an anther. (? from its scattering pollen.)
1665Rea Flora i. ix. 51 Six chives [in the tulip], tipt with pendents (which are those after the French we call Tamis). 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 65/1 The Agot Tulip is of a sad Isabella colour, with..a dark bottom, and large black Tamis. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Tulip, The bottom and Tamis blue. 1775Ash, Tamis [erroneously explained].
3. attrib., as tamis-bolter, tamis-cloth (see 1); tamis-bird, the guinea-fowl (? from its speckled or powdered appearance).
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) II. iii. vi. 75 They [Guinea-hens] are by some called the Barbary-hen: by others the Tamis bird. |