† toˈbine Obs.
[app. an altered form of tabine, = Du. tabijn, ad. It. tabino (Florio), by-form of tabi (see tabby), whence also Ger. tabin, of which tobin is cited by Heyse Fremdwörterbuch as an upper German variant.]
= tabine.
| 1755 The Card II. xi. 59 With superior lustre shine in simple lutestring or tobine. 1799 G. Smith Laboratory II. 45 There are likewise lutestring tobines, which commonly are striped with flowers in the warp, and sometimes between the tobine stripes, with brocaded sprigs. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Tobine, a stout twilled silk. |