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English
Etymology
From an Anglo-Norman common name for the festival of the Epiphany. See Tiffany.
Noun
tiffany (countable and uncountable, plural tiffanies)
- A kind of gauze, or very thin silk.
1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, Book 6, Chapter 12, p. 284:[…] the smoak of sulphur will not black paper, and is commonly used by Women to whiten Tiffanies […]
1721, Robert Samber, chapter 1, in A Treatise of the Plague, London: James Holland et al., page 8:Reduce all to a very fine Powder, searsing the same through a Tiffany Searse, as you should the former.
- 1792, Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey; or, the Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act III, Scene 1, p. 34,
- he made me throw away my peasant weeds, and gave me all these fine cloaths. See this tiffany, all spotted with silver; look at this beautiful turban—He gave it me all!
1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter XII.”, in Desmond. , volume II, London: G[eorge,] G J and J Robinson, , →OCLC, pages 167–168:When, however, the matin loving lark, or ruſſet pinions, floating amid the tiffany clouds, that variegated, in fleecy undulation, the grey-inveſted heavens, hailed with his ſoul-reviving note, the radient countenance of returning morn; […]
1903, E. Bartrum, The Book of Pears and Plums, London: John Lane, page 34:Frost is another foe. Cordons might be protected by hoops covered with tiffany, Russian canvas, mats, or netting; bushes by nets, mats, etc.
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.