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ˈtoilinet, -ette, toileˈnette
Also 8 -enet, 9 -anette.
[Origin unascertained: perh. a fancy trade-name; app. f. F. toile linen, cloth, the rest of the word being modelled on satinet, -ette, sarsenet, -ette, or the like (in which the n belongs to the root).]
A kind of fine woollen cloth: used in the first half of the 19th c. for waistcoats of grooms, huntsmen, etc.; for later application see quot. 18582. Also attrib.
1799Hull Advertiser 12 Jan. 2/2 Waistcoat of kerseymere or toilenet. 1801Nemnich Waaren Lexicon ii. 687 Toilinet, ein feines Westenzeug von Wolle, das in Yorkshire verfertigt wird; Striped, gestreift; Checked, gewürfelt. Es ist dem Swansdown ähnlich. 1810in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. XIV. 47 With the broad-cloth, toilinets, waistcoat and breeches-stuff. 1840Chalmers Chr. & Civic Econ. xxii, The making of shawls and the making of toilinette waistcoats. 1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxviii, His vest [was] a canary-coloured striped toilanette, with a slightly turned-down collar. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Toilinet, a kind of German quilting; silk and cotton warp with woollen weft. |