† tapisser Obs. exc. Hist.
Forms: 4–5 tapycer, tapecer, -e, tapicer, tapesere, taphiser, 5 tapiser, tapser, 5–6 tapisser, Sc. tapescher.
[a. AF. tapicer = OF. tapicier (13th c.), mod.F. tapissier, f. OF. tapiz, F. tapis, figured cloth: see tapis n. and -er2.]
A maker or weaver of figured cloth or tapestry.
| c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 362 A Webbe, a Dyere, and a Tapycer [v.rr. taphiser, tapecer(e]. 1388 Wyclif Exod. xxxviii. 23 A tapesere and a broderere of iacynt, purpur, vermyloun and bijs. 1439 in Ancestor July (1904) 17 A coverlit and a testre of tapicers werk. 1541 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. VIII. 42 Given to the tapescher for his warkmanschip. 1591 Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 225 He shall be a tapisser or spinner of cloth of golde. 1883 M. E. Haweis in Contemp. Rev. Sept. 426 Chaucer describes the fat dyer and tapiser in his prologue. 1892 Besant London 194 When certain tapicers were charged with selling false blankets. |
Hence † tapisser-work Obs., tapestry-work.
| 1459 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 227 Hengyng for ye halle and parlor of tapisserwerk. |