† holmes Obs.
Also 5 holmess, 7 hollmes.
[A corruption of Ulmes (Ulm.).]
A fustian made at Ulm in Germany; more fully holmes fustian.
| 1474 in Dauney Anc. Scot. Melodies (1838), Item, x. elnes of blak holmess fustian to the trumpatis doublats. 1547 Boorde Introd. Knowl. xiv. (1870) 161 A cyte called Ulmes, where fustyan vlmes is made, that we cal holmes. 1551 R. Ascham Let. Wks. 1865 I. ii. 264 This city is enriched by making of fuschian called in England barburuslie holmes fuschian. 1624 Naworth Househ. Bks. (Surtees) 213, 3 yards of white hollmes, iijs. 1633 Ibid. 298, 9 yeardes of holmes fustian, xijs. |