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▪ I. † tapester, -ister Obs. rare.
Also 5 tapster.
[Corruption of tapeser tapisser, prob. by association with trade names in -ster; cf. tapestry.]
= tapisser. Also attrib., as tapester-work.
1472–3Rolls of Parlt. VI. 37/2, xii Quyssions of Tapster-work. 1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 29 b, Smithes, glasiers, tapisters, painters. 1609Bible (Douay) Exod. xxxv. 35 To make the workes of a carpenter, a tapester, an embroderer of hyacinth and purple. [1859Parker Turner's Dom. Archit. III. iii. 62 The most lucrative trade of the fifteenth century was that of a ‘tapister’.]
▪ II. tapester
obs. form of tapster. |