Fine or rich cloth, esp. as used for the robes of persons of high rank; spec. purple cloth for such robes (cf. purple, adj. 2a); a piece of this…

A precious material much esteemed in the Middle Ages; in the first quot. perhaps ‘scarlet cloth’; in others it is cloth of gold or other rich…

†(a) In early use, some rich cloth, often of a bright red colour, but (according to French, Middle Dutch, and medieval Latin sources) also…

A rich and costly stuff of eastern origin, used in the West in the 14th and 15th centuries. Also cloth of tars.

Scarlet.

Scarlet, scarlet raiment.

Corrupt forms in Wycliffite manuscripts of coccyn, n., scarlet.

a worn-out piece of clothing; cf. scarlet, n. 1(a).

gold tissed, cotton tissed, modelled on French or tissu, coton tissu (cf. gold of tisshue, quot. 1501 at tissue, n. 1a).

A stuff of silk or cloth of gold; = ciclatoun, n.

Identified or confused with ciclatoun, n.; see also Du Cange s.v. Cyclas.