tartaryn
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English tartarin, from Old French/Middle French tartarin (“Tartar, Tartarian”); see Tartar for more.
Noun edit
tartaryn (countable and uncountable, plural tartaryns)
- (historical) A costly cloth, probably a kind of silk.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 573:
- Another and cheaper kind of silk stuff is called tartaryn.