baudekin, baudkin Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈbɔːdɪkɪn, ˈbɔːdkɪn)
Forms: 4–9 baudekyn, baudekin, 5–9 baudkin, 6–9 bawdkin; also 4 baudekine, 4–6 bawdekyn(e, 5 bawdkyne, bawedekyn, 5–6 bawdekin, 6 baudkyn, bawdikyn, bawdkyn, 7 bodkin.
[a. OF. baudekin, -quin:—med.L. baldakinus, -ekinus (= It. baldacchino), f. Baldacco, It. form of Bagdad; see baldachin.]
A rich embroidered stuff, originally made with warp of gold thread and woof of silk; later, with wider application, rich brocade, rich shot silk. Sometimes, more fully, cloth of baud(e)kin.
| c 1300 K. Alis. 759 He dude his temple al by-honge With bawdekyn, brod and longe. c 1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 2744 Th' emperour was browt abedde, With riche baudekines i-spredde. 1440 Lincolnsh. Ch. Furn. (1866) 182 A vesment of baudekyn y⊇ ground black with grene Werk. 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clvii. [cliii.] 429 Aparelled in gownes of one sute of clothe of Baudkyn, grene and crymosyn. 1536 Regist. in Antiq. Sarisb. (1771) 197 Ten Chesibles of white Bawdkin, with leaves and hearts of Gold. 1552 Huloet, Bawdkyn or Tynsel clothe. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 174 Arraied in cloth of gold of the most pretious and costly Bawdkin. 1624 Heywood Gunaik. v. 241 Women apparrelled in cloth of bodkin. 1861 H. Ainsworth Constable of T. 43 Her dress was of gold bawdkin. |
| attrib. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 27 Bawdekyn clothe, olosericus. 1609 Holland Amm. Marcel. xiv. note, Surcoat of scarlet, likewise of bawdkin work. 1843 Lytton Last Bar. ii. ii. 124 The baudekin stripes (blue and gold) of her tunic attested her royalty. |