Lexicographical Neighbors of Taffety
Literary usage of Taffety
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Essayists by James Ferguson (1823)
"It will be much more easy, therefore, to laugh Sir taffety into reason, ...
But Sir taffety is a fop of so sanguine a complexion, that I fear it will be ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... will bestow half a dozen taffety gowns, who in requital bestows on him the
French pox. Poor Rubin,. Cock-n-doodle do, 'tis t hi* bravest game, ..."
3. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Goddard, Guibon (1828)
"... in war, painted upon taffety. About the bed stood men in mourning, holding in
their hands black wands, and also standing bare-headed; and without the ..."
4. The Saturday Magazine (1841)
"The taffety of which the leaves are made, is .coloured in pieces about a ...
When it is painted, the taffety is stretched over a frame, and left to dry. ..."
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