† tamin Obs.
Also 7–8 -ine.
[app. aphetic deriv. of F. étamine (in OF. estamine) stamin.]
A thin woollen stuff: = stamin. Also attrib.
| 1552 in J. C. Jeaffreson Middlesex County Rec. (1886) I. 8 Unum par manicarum de serico vocato tamin [pr. tawin] damaske ad valenciam v.s. 1611 Cotgr., Estamine, the stuffe Tamine; also, a strayner, searce, boulter, or boulting cloth. 1625 Massinger New Way iii. ii, I took her up in an old tamin gown. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i. lvi, Their stockins were of tamine [F. estamet] or of cloth-serge. 1714 Fr. Bk. of Rates 366 Cloth-Rash and Tamine common. [1822 Nares, Tamine, a sort of woollen cloth; probably the same that is now called tammy.] |
¶ b. A strainer or bolter, of this stuff; = tamis 1.
| 1847 in Webster. Hence in later dicts.; perh. never in use. |