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English
Noun
cloth of tissue (uncountable)
- (historical) A kind of rich silk velvet cloth with loops of gold thread woven into the pile.
1922, E R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 4:A joy it was to see such a shifting maze of velvets, furs, curious needleworks and cloth of tissue, tiffanies, laces, ruffs, goodly chains and carcanets of gold: such glitter of jewels and weapons: such nodding of the plumes the Demons wore in their hair, half veiling the horns that grew upon their heads.