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† ˈvitry Obs.
Forms: 5 vettris, Sc. vitrisch; 6 vitre, 7 vitree, vitrie, vittry, 8 vitry; 6–7 vittery, 9 vittory.
[ad. F. Vitré, the name of a town in Brittany. The early forms in -is, -isch prob. represent F. Vitrées pl., canvas cloths made at Vitré.]
Vitry canvas, a kind of light durable canvas. (Cf. vandelas.) Also ellipt.
c1425Foreign Accts. 59 m. 23 a (P.R.O.), [A ship's bonnet containing] iiij di' uln' canab' de vettris. 1497Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 345 For xiiij elne of vetrisch cammas to ane litil palȝoune of the Kingis, xiiij s. 1534Exch. Acc. 58/13 Vittery canvas. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuff 27 For which is alwaies paide ready Golde, with salt, Canuas Vitre, and a great deale of good trash. 1612Ledger A. Halyburton (1867) 319 Vandolose or Vitrie canves the eln, x s. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 134 And they bring from thence Linnen cloathes, called white Roanes and Vitree Canvas. 1640in Entick London (1766) II. 167 Linnens,..narrow vandales, or vittry canvas. 1721C. King Brit. Merch. I. 181, 17000 Hund. of Vitry and Noyals Canvas. Ibid. 284 Canvas Vitry,..Canvas Norman. 1757J. H. Grose Voy. E. Indies 176 Holland's duck, or vitry, is whilst in use, more pliant, and less apt to split. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 714 Vitry, a light and durable canvas. Ibid., Vittory, a fine canvas, of which the waist⁓cloths were formerly made. |