Meaning of cloth of tissue | Babel Free

Definitions

A kind of rich silk velvet cloth with loops of gold thread woven into the pile.

historical, uncountable

Examples

“A joy it was to see such a shifting maze of velvets, furs, curious needleworks and cloth of tissue, tiffanies, laces, ruffs, goodly chains and carcanets of gold: such glitter of jewels and weapons: such nodding of the plumes the Demons wore in their hair, half veiling the horns that grew upon their heads.”

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