taffaty

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taffaty (countable and uncountable, plural taffaties)

  1. Obsolete form of taffeta.
    • 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy:
      She must have her taffaties for the summer, her flowered silks for the spring and autumn, her satins and damasks for winter.
    • 1887, Sir William Hedges, Sir Henry Yule, The Diary of William Hedges, Esq.:
      I saw ye Taffaties and Atlasses in ye warehouse, and gave directions concerning their severall colours and stripes, ordering Mr. Charnock to use his best endeavours to encrease their quantity; []