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tarlatan|ˈtɑːlətən| Also 8 tarnatan, 9 tarlatane, tarleton. [a. F. tarlatane, dissimilated from tarnatane (1723 in Hatz.-Darm.: cf. quot. 1727–41); prob. of Indian origin.] A kind of thin open muslin, used esp. for ball-dresses. Freq. attrib. Also absol., to designate a dress made of this fabric.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Muslin, There are various kinds of muslins brought from the East-Indies; chiefly Bengal; betelles, tarnatans, mulmuls [etc.]. 1844Lexington (Kentucky) Observer 25 Sept. 1/6 Tarlatan Muslin..will be sold. 1849Trelawny (Jamaica) 24 Apr. 1/2 Rich colored gingham, and tarleton plaid. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xviii. 309, I was just dying to know whether you would appear in your pink tarletane. 1853Lowell Lett. (1894) I. iii. 219 The cheapening of a tarlatan muslin. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Tarlatan, a kind of book⁓muslin principally made in Scotland. 1873Miss Woolsey What Katy Did at Sch. x. 166 Cecy has got some beautiful new dresses,—a white muslin, a tarlatan, and a pink silk. 1873Young Englishwoman Jan. 51/3 Does she never go to a ball or dance, and require the extra dress in the shape of a white tarlatan or something of that sort? 1903Daily Chron. 3 Oct. 8/4 Tarlatan is another old-world material now being resuscitated for evening dresses. 1936M. Mitchell Gone with Wind 175 Maybelle Merriwether went toward the next booth..in an apple-green tarlatan so wide that it reduced her waist to nothingness. 1936N. Streatfeild Ballet Shoes iv. 50 When you start on Monday you're having rompers, two each, black-patent ankle-strap shoes, and white tarlatan dresses, two each, with white sandal shoes. 1975New Yorker 29 Dec. 23/3 Sleptsov also found..a tarlatan bag on a collapsible hoop (and the muslin still smelled of summer and sun-hot grass). |