Citations:tape
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English citations of tape
- alcohol (see Tea Room)
- 1827 (originally 1755?), Connoisseur, page=223:
- Madam Gin has been christened by as many names as a German princess : every petty chandler's shop will sell you Sky-blue, and every night-cellar furnish you with Holland tape, three yards a penny. Nor can I see the difference […]}}
- 1817, The White Dwarf: A London Weekly Publication, page 222:
- […] who is now puffing his pipe and sipping his grog, as unconcerned as a Dutch fiddler at a merry-making, has no business here selling his cheese and candles in the day-time, and his yards of tape in the evening: […] and now then for the tape-shop. […]
- 1830 (1854), Edward Bulwer Lytton, Paul Clifford:
- A tumbler of blue ruin fill, fill for me! / Red tape those as likes it may drain, / But whatever the lush, it a bumper must be.
- […]
- Oh! those jovial days are ne'er forgot! But the tape' lags—When I be's dead, you'll drink one put To poor old Bags!
- unclear meaning
- 2019 June 6, “Westwood Crib Session (2019)”[1]performed by OFB (rap group):
- We’re just tryna tape a next man’s estate, tryna add that K, go kway and bake.