Citations:tape

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.