▪ I. † ˈtartarin, -ine, n.1 Obs.
Forms: 4 tarterine, 5 -yn(e, -en, -on; 4–5 tartaryn(e, 5 -en(e, -on(e, (-yan), tarturyn, (tatterine), tarturne; 6 tartarne, -erne, -orn(e, tartron, 6–7 tartern, 7 tartarin, -ine.
[a. OF. Tartarin = med.L. Tartarīn-us, f. Tartar-us, Tartar n.2 and n.3, with suffix -ine1, as in Tarentine, etc. (med.L. pl. Tartarīnī also embodying the notion ‘people of Tartarus’); in OF. also in sense 2.]
1. = Tartar n.2 1; in pl. = med.L. Tartarīnī.
| a 1400–50 Alexander 5484 Of terands of þir tartaryns twa & twenti kyngs. c 1400 Mandeville (1839) xxi. 224 Tartarynes [Roxb. xxiv, folk of Tartre] & þei þat duelle in the grete Asye, þei camen of Cham. c 1400 Three Kings Cologne 148 Þe wich pepil cleped hem-self Tartaryns. |
2. A rich stuff, apparently of silk, imported from the East, prob. from China through Tartary; = tartar n.3 Cf. sarsenet. [OF. tartarin, earlier drap tartarin (1295 in Godef.).]
| 1343 Enrolled Acc. (W. & H.) 3 m. 38 b, ij vlnis panni serici ix peciis Tartaryn et j pecia Samitell. 1345–9 Wardr. Acc. Edw. III in Archæologia XXXI. 72/2, j. frontale de tartaryn. Ibid. 85/2, vj. vln. de Tartaryn. c 1400 Mandeville (1839) xxiii. 255 Cloþes of gold, & of Camakaas, & tartarynes [Roxb. xxvi. 125 tartarene, F. text tartaires]. 1407 Nottingham Rec. II. 50 Pro dimidia virga de viridi tarteren, xviij d. 1411 in Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 50 [One hanging of black and white] ‘Wyrsted’ ‘cum penna de Tatterine’. 14.. Epiph. in Tundale's Vis., etc. (1843) 114 Wer ther of gold any clothes fownde Of sylke damaske or of tartryn. 1444 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 110 Myn aulter⁓clothe of reed tarteryn with ye corteyns. 1455 Coventry Leet Bk. 283 To make a newe pensell in Tarturne xvj d. 1459 in Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 191 Curteynes of tarteron. 1512 Acc. 4 Hen. VIII, c. 6 Preamble, Saten, sarsenet, tartron, chamblet, and every other Cloth of Silke. c 1530 Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 381 Florence layd her downe in her bedde in a lyghte kyrtell of chaungeable vyolet tartorne. 1538 in Lett. Suppress. Monasteries (Camden) 268, ij. copes of redd tartarne. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VII 1 b, Y⊇ third [standard] was of yelowe tarterne, in the which was peinted a donne kowe. 1661 Morgan Sph. Gentry iv. i. 5 Having Mantles of silk over a Kirtle of red Tartarin. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 55/2 Another puts on him a Kirtle of red Silk or Tartarine. |
| fig. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 30 Thi chekes hangen, thyn eyene wax read as wyne, And wel belyned with good read tartaryne. |
| attrib. a 1400–50 Alexander 1547 (MS. D) Tyrett alle in tonacles of tartaren webbys. [1861 Our Eng. Home 92 The rich taffeta, the velvets, and Tartaren silks, were often worn without a shred of underclothing.] |
▪ II. † ˈtartarin, n.2 Obs.
[f. tartar n.1 + -in1.]
1. A name given by Kirwan to potash.
| 1796 Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 5 Vegetable Alkali (which I call Tartarin). 1799 ― Geol. Ess. v. 150 The tartarin lately discovered in clays and many stones. |
2. ‘Native sulphate of potassium, also called Arkanite and Glaserite’ (Watts Dict. Chem. V. 696).
Hence ˈtartarinated a., combined with tartarin.
| 1796 Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 311 The Acido Tartarinated Calx is fusible per se. |