† peˈropus Obs.
Also 7 paropa, parapos, piropus, 8 pyropus.
[Origin unascertained.]
A kind of fabric used in the early part of the seventeenth century, the same as or similar to paragon.
| c 1605 Alleg. Worsted Weavers (B.M. Add. MS. 12504, art. 64) A peropus and paragon [are] all one [cloth]. c 1605 [see paragon n. 5]. 1622 Bonoeil Making Silk 25 Be it say, Piropus, the backside of old Veluet, or such like stuffe as hath no wooll on it. 1623 J. Taylor (Water P.) Praise Hempseed Wks. (1630) iii. 64/2 Rash, Taffata, Paropa, and Nouato, Shagge, Fillizetta, Damaske and Mockado. 1624 in Naworth Househ. Bks. (Surtees) 214, 10 yards of watered peropus..to make my Lady a cassock, xxxs. 1625 in J. C. Jeaffreson Middlesex County Rec. II. 184 Stealing of a peece of imbrodered Peropus. 1706 in Watson Coll. Scot. Poems i. 28 No proud Pyropus, Paragon, Or Chackarally. |