10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «TUFTAFFETA» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
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1
Textile Manufactures in Early Modern England
10 Tuftaffeta, which could be either all silk or half linen, had long been imported
into England." All-silk tuftaffeta manufacture in London was first recorded in 1594
and probably commenced about 1590. In 1601 a member of the London French ...
And why alas from you, I beseech you? Or why poor Numps, Goody Rich? Am I
come to be pitied by your 130 tuftaffeta now? Why, mistress, I knew Adam, the
clerk, your husband, when he was Adam Scrivener, and writ for two pence a
sheet, ...
Ben Jonson, Alexander Leggatt, G.R. Hibbard,
2014
Am I come to be pitied by your tuftaffeta now? Why, mistress, I knew Adam, the
clerk, your husband, when he was Adam Scrivener, and writ for two pence a
sheet, as high as he bears his head now, or you your hood, dame. The watch
comes in ...
30. tuftaffeta] 'A kind of taffeta with a pile or nap arranged in tufts. . . . Tuftaffeta
cream: a very soft or smooth kind of cream; velvet cream' (N.E.D.). See Appendix
B for Hoskins's 'fustian answer' to a 'tuftaffeta speech.' Cf. also 'taffeta phrases,' ...
Princeton University,
1935
5
Yale Studies in English
Yet the author of the 'tuftaffeta' speech would have been the last to discard the
elaborate tables of figures, as is evident from his Direccons For Speech and Style
. He merely insists upon a judicious but still highly conscious employment of them
.
6
The youth of the Old Dominion
... sea-captain, as he threw himself on his knees in his state-room, in an agony of
mind about his godless life. It was his first penitential prayer. t Alluding to the
silken jerkins by which the "gentlemen" colonists were distinguished. " Tuftaffeta ...
7
A New Universal, Technological, Etymological, and ...
TUFTAFFETA, tnf-t»f'fe-ta,\ t. A villouB kind of TUFTAFFETY, tuf-taf 'fe-te, / silk.
Sleeveless his jerkin was : and it had been velvet; hut it was now, so much
ground was Sfon, become tuftajftty. — Donne. I c n i;i>, tuf' ted, a. Adorned with a
toft ...
"I have not wooed in earnest," he said carelessly, and hitched forward his cloak of
skyblue tuftaffeta with an air. "I sheered off quickly enough, I warrant you, when I
found the nature of the commodity I had todeal with." "Ah!" I said. "When I left ...
9
Sexuality and Citizenship: Metamorphosis in Elizabethan ...
4 In the Middle Temple Revels of 1597-8, John Hoskyns's Tuftaffeta speech
makes a certain amount of nonsensical reference to tobacco, reflecting, no doubt,
the participation of Sir Walter Ralegh in the festivities.5 Often attributed (
incorrectly) ...
Jim Ellis, James Richard Ellis,
2003
10
Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty
He strongly disdains word play, maintaining that: [T]hat kind of breaking words
into another meaning is pretty to play with around gentlewomen, as, you will have
but a bare gain of this bargain; otherwise it will best become the tuftaffeta orators
...