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‖ tiretaine|tirtɛn|
[Fr.; 1247 in Godef. Compl. (also ? c 1400 tierteine, 1449 tirtaine (1718, Littré), 1487 tertaine; 1581 tritaine): cf. tartan.]
A cloth woven of wool mixed with linen or cotton, ‘worne ordinarily by the French peasants’ (Cotgr.); linsey-woolsey.
1863Sala Last Crusader 213 ‘Many and many a time’, writes the good Sire de Joinville,..‘have I seen the good king..vestured in a coat of camlet, a surcoat of tiretaine without sleeves, a mantle above the black sandalette’. [1866Rogers Agric. & Prices II. xxii. 579 We find kersey, tirretin [c 1284–5: cf. I. 536/3], murrey, burell, rosete, keynet, reynes, and taursmaurs. ]1901tr. V. Hugo's Notre-Dame xxiii, The petticoat of tiretaine with red and blue stripes. 1910Sat. Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 6/2 Plump dames in tiretaines. |