Middle English Dictionary Entry
Tartarī̆n n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Tartarī̆n n. Also tartarine, tartarene, tarterin(e, tarterein, tarteren, tarteron, tartarun, tartarne, tartirn, tartorne, tartrin & (errors) tartyn, tatterine. |
| Etymology | OF tartarin n. & AL tartarīnum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. Tartarien n.
1.
(a) An inhabitant of Tartary, a Tartar; (b) a costly fabric, perhaps a kind of silk, made in (or originally made in, or imported via) Tartary;—also pl.; also, a piece of this fabric; also fig.; (c) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- c1415 Chaucer CT.Sq.(Lnsd 851)F.28 : Þis noble kinge, þis tartaryn [vr. Tartre] Cambynskan, Had tuo sonnes.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)146/23 : Tartarynes [Man.(2): folk of Tartre; F Tartarins] & þei þat duellen in the grete Asye..camen of Cham.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)166/34 : It is gret drede for to pursuen the Tartarynes [Man.(2): Tartarenes] ȝif þei fleen in bataylle.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5484 : Alexander..closis Of terands of þir tartaryns twa & twenti kyngs.
- c1450(?c1400) 3 KCol.(1) (Cmb Ee.4.32)148/5 : Þe wich pepil cleped hem-self Tartaryns.
b
- (1343) Enrolled Acc.(W.& H.) 3 m.38b [OD col.] : ij vlnis panni serici ix peciis Tartaryn et j pecia Samitell.
- (1347) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III(1) in Archaeol.3172 : j frontale de tartaryn.
- (1359) Reg.Edw.Blk.Pr.4.324 : [A piece of] tartryn, [green].
- (1378) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)4.15 : [A coverlet with a celure joined in one piece of blue] tartaryn [worth 53 s. 4 d.].
- (1407-8) in Rec.B.Nottingham 250 : Pro dimidia virga de viridi tarteren, xviij d.
- (1415) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)48 : Y will..a grene bed..with iij corteyns reed and plonket tarterein paled.
- (1420-21) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.513 : xl peciis tartarynz.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)655/6 : Linistema: tarteryne.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)168/27 : Lordes ȝeuen him..clothes of gold & of Camakaas & tartarynes [F tartaires].
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)114/17 : Þir festez er made in tentes made of clathes of gold or of tartarene or camaca.
- (1444) Will Daubeney in Som.RS 19340 : Y wol geve my autercloth of Red tarteron.
- c1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)132 : His cropoure was of tartaryne.
- c1450(?a1422) Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)5.359 : Wer ther of golde any clothez founde, Of silke damaske or ryche tarteryne [vr. tartryn]?
- (1454) EEWills133/2 : Y bequethe..my bed of grene sylke, wiþ the testour & Canape ther-to, palid tartyn [?read: tartaryn] white and rede.
- (1457) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.152 : [A piece of russet damask..7] postes [of] Tartaruns.
- (1462) Paston (EETS)1.112 : A coueryng of reed tapseri wyth iij curteyns of tarteryn.
- (1462) Reg.Chanc.Oxf.in OHS 9490 : Duas particulas panni serici, viz. unam de viridi tartorne..& alteram de russet tartorne.
- (1460-65) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31396 : Payd for the makyng of ijo passyon baners: For Tartaryn; For the frenge; For the stauys; For the ijo Crossys.
- (1472-5) RParl.6.154b : Satens, Sarcenettes, Tarterons, Chamelettes, and other Clothes of Sylk.
- (?1474) Stonor1.146 : Carpets for the sacrament wyth a canape of reede tartarne.
- c1475 A philosophre (Hrl 372)p.30 : Thyn eyene wax read as wyne, And wel belyned with good read tartaryne.
- a1500 PPl.B (Oriel 79)15.224 : [Ld: In riche robes rathest he walketh]..clenlich ycloþed in cipres & in tartaryne.
- a1500 Weights in RHS ser.3.41 (Vsp E.9)18 : i pece Tartyrn ys x yerdes.
- a1525(?1455) Cov.Leet Bk.283 : To make a newe pensell in Tarturne, xvj d.
- -?-(1411) Will in Som.RS 1650 : [One hanging of black and white] Wyrsted cum penna de Tatterine [?read: Tarterine].
- -?-(1438) Will in Som.RS 16144 : [One pair of vestments for the chapel..of black] tartryne.
c
- (1293) Select Pleas Manor.in Seld.Soc.270 : Alexandri Tartarin.