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† Tours Obs.|turz|
Also 6 Towres, 6–7 Towers.
[Name of a city in France.]
Used attrib. in names of things made at or associated with Tours; as Tours taffeta (also taffeta Tours).
1558in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 31 Taffita Towers white xix yardes. Ibid. 38 The gownes lyned with white towres taffita. 1572Ibid. 187 Of Taffata crimsin thirtie two yardes, of Taffata Tawnie Towers thirtie and sixe yardes. 1586Rates of Custome E vij b, Taffata, called Towers Taffata the yarde iii. s. iiij. d. 1640in Entick London (1766) II. 169 Tabbies of silk, towers taffaty, the dozen yards, 2d.
b. Tours sorrel, buckler-shaped or French sorrel, Rumex scutata.
1578Lyte Dodoens v. ix. 558 Oxalis Romana, Tours Sorrel or Romayne Sorrel. [Ibid. 559 Romayne Sorrel..in Frenche Ozeille Romaine, and Ozeille de Tours.] 1611Cotgr., Ozeille Romaine, Roman Sorrell,..Tours Sorrell. |