10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUFFTAFFETA»
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The origins of English nonsense
Tuft-taffeta' or 'tufftaffeta', however, brought further implications into play. This was
a 'tufted' variety of the material, which meant that it was woven with raised stripes
or spots. These stripes, upon being cut, left a pile like velvet, and, since the ...
2
Every Man Out of His Humour
John Hoskyns's 'Fustian Speech' was not only a reply to Charles Best's 'Tufftaffeta
Speech', in which tobacco was hailed as politically powerful, but also an oblique
chaffing of Sir Walter Ralegh, the Prince d'Amour's chief guest for the evening ...
Ben Jonson, Helen Ostovich, 2001
His clothes were strange, though coarse, and black, though bare; 30 Sleeveless
his jerkin was, and it had been Velvet, but 'twas now (so much ground was seen)
Become tufftaffeta, and our children shall See it plain rash awhile, then naught ...
4
Shakespeare, Politics, and Italy: Intertextuality on the ...
He would have had the opportunity to discuss Twelfth Night with erudite
colleagues like John Hoskyns, acclaimed for his extempore performance of the '
Fustian Answer to a Tufftaffeta Speech' at the 1597-1598 Middle Temple Revels.
77 ...
Mr Michael J Redmond, 2013
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The Collected Poems of John Donne
33, I. I I) * sense 3 (disturbance of outer sphere) Tufftaffeta OED 2nd cit. 'taffeta
with pile or knap in tufts' Tyres headdresses Unconcerning (p. I97, l. 285) # '
irrelevant, of no importance' Unimportuned (p. I65, I. 23) # 'gratuitously'
Unmanured (p.
John Donne, Roy Booth, 1994
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Skull Beneath the Skin: The Achievement of John Webster
The Prince d'Amour Revels of 1597-1598 at Webster's Inn included a mock
coronation and proclamation of the Prince's titles, a formal challenge by a
stranger knight and a defense by a champion, the rendering of homage, a "
Tufftaffeta ...
7
John Marston of the Middle Temple: an Elizabethan dramatist ...
For example, he says about the "fustian" answer he delivered at the importunity of
Sir Walter Raleigh to the "tufftaffeta" address by the Prince's Orator on December
29: "If you will read over that speech, you shall find most of the figures of ...
Philip J. Finkelpearl, 1969
8
The English Wits: Literature and Sociability in Early Modern ...
Michelle O'Callaghan argues that the lawyer-wits, including John Hoskyns, in company with authors such as John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate, consciously reinvigorated humanist traditions of learned play.
Michelle O'Callaghan, 2007
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Historic Dress in America, 1607-1800: With an Introductory ...
Tippets. — A neck covering made of a variety of materials worn for ornament, of
gauze and tissues, and for warmth, of fur. Tongs. — Overalls of coarse cotton or
linen. Tufftaffeta. — A taffeta with a chenille stripe, worn in New England. Tuly.
Elisabeth McClellan, 1904
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Historic dress in America, 1607-1870
Tongs. — Overalls of coarse cotton or linen. Tufftaffeta.— A taffeta with a chenille
stripe, worn in New England. Tuly. — A shade of red. Turban also Turbin. — A
head-dress for women made of gauze and trimmed with feathers, very
fashionable ...
Elisabeth McClellan, 1977
