Meanings
nountaffety (countable and uncountable, plural taffeties)
plural taffeties
- countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of taffeta.
‘Taffety brocade at ten shillings an ell at Simon Snippets, the woman’s tailor, now quite ruined. I shall go distracted.’
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 561 more example
Fancy a tall and fine figure in a green taffety dress, set off with rose-coloured ribands, both colours well suited to her fair hair and skin;...
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 256–257
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