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† tapisser Obs. exc. Hist.
Forms: 4–5 tapycer, tapecer, -e, tapicer, tapesere, taphiser, 5 tapiser, tapser, 5–6 tapisser, Sc. tapescher.
[a. AF. tapicer = OF. tapicier (13th c.), mod.F. tapissier, f. OF. tapiz, F. tapis, figured cloth: see tapis n. and -er2.]
A maker or weaver of figured cloth or tapestry.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 362 A Webbe, a Dyere, and a Tapycer [v.rr. taphiser, tapecer(e]. 1388Wyclif Exod. xxxviii. 23 A tapesere and a broderere of iacynt, purpur, vermyloun and bijs. 1439in Ancestor July (1904) 17 A coverlit and a testre of tapicers werk. 1541Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. VIII. 42 Given to the tapescher for his warkmanschip. 1591Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 225 He shall be a tapisser or spinner of cloth of golde. 1883M. E. Haweis in Contemp. Rev. Sept. 426 Chaucer describes the fat dyer and tapiser in his prologue. 1892Besant London 194 When certain tapicers were charged with selling false blankets.
Hence † tapisser-work Obs., tapestry-work.
1459Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 227 Hengyng for ye halle and parlor of tapisserwerk. |