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† peˈropus Obs.
Also 7 paropa, parapos, piropus, 8 pyropus.
[Origin unascertained.]
A kind of fabric used in the early part of the seventeenth century, the same as or similar to paragon.
c1605Alleg. Worsted Weavers (B.M. Add. MS. 12504, art. 64) A peropus and paragon [are] all one [cloth]. c1605[see paragon n. 5]. 1622Bonoeil Making Silk 25 Be it say, Piropus, the backside of old Veluet, or such like stuffe as hath no wooll on it. 1623J. Taylor (Water P.) Praise Hempseed Wks. (1630) iii. 64/2 Rash, Taffata, Paropa, and Nouato, Shagge, Fillizetta, Damaske and Mockado. 1624in Naworth Househ. Bks. (Surtees) 214, 10 yards of watered peropus..to make my Lady a cassock, xxxs. 1625in J. C. Jeaffreson Middlesex County Rec. II. 184 Stealing of a peece of imbrodered Peropus. 1706in Watson Coll. Scot. Poems i. 28 No proud Pyropus, Paragon, Or Chackarally. |