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bustiann.Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from Latin. Perhaps a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin bustianus; French bustian. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < post-classical Latin bustianus (from 1396 in British sources) or Anglo-Norman bustian (1423 or earlier: see below), of uncertain origin, although corresponding forms appear in texts written in England in French, Latin, and English at a similar date, and the relationship between them is difficult to establish. Perhaps ultimately reflecting a variant or alteration (perhaps after fustian n. or its etymon) of Old French butaine , butene cotton fabric from the Levant (1298; compare Middle French (Walloon) butane a common type of fabric (1422; also 1434 in Middle French also as buttenne , buttanne , bustanne , bustane denoting a type of material made in Valencia)) < Egyptian Arabic buṭāna lining of a dress or boot, colloquial variant of literary Arabic biṭāna basan n. Perhaps compare ( < Egyptian Arabic buṭāna ) Italian bottana (see botano n.), post-classical Latin butana (1377 in an Italian source).Compare also the following, which apparently shows a vernacular word in a Latin linguistic context, although whether Middle English or Anglo-Norman is uncertain:a1377 in A. Watkin Archdeaconry Norwich: Inventory Church Goods (1947) I. 20 Item j capa de Busteyne albo inbordato cum rosis rubiis.1377 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1878) II. 548 In empcione de xvij ulnis de bustiane. Now historical. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > other 1424 in M. Sellers (1912) I. 236 j frontale de whitebustion. 1432 in H. Littlehales (1905) 27 (MED) Also a sengel vestement of white busteyn for lent. 1566 in E. Peacock (1866) 43 A cope and a vestment of Bustian defaced. 1598 J. Florio Restagno, a kinde of stuffe like bustian, such as they make waste-cotes of. 1622 G. de Malynes 229 The commodities which are not made at all, or but in small quantitie in England, and may be practised, are manie, as Buckrams, Tapistrie, Bustians, Cambrickes. 1693 in A. W. C. Hallen (1894) 160 To my wife to pay for bustine to lyne ye bodie..and breeks. 1725 A. Ramsay i. i Neat, neat she was, in bustine waistcoat clean. 1749 S. Lowe 118/2 Yards:..15 of Baffins, Bombasins, Bustians, Carrels, Dornix, Fustians, Rashes, Sackcloths, Sayes. 1858 House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths iv. in (Chetham Soc.) 46 Notes 845 The ticks were made of busk or bustian. 1902 P. Dearmer (ed. 4) 443 The Lent vestments and hangings were of white bustian and linen with red crosses. 2001 J. Middleton-Stewart ix. 197 The Sumptuary Act of 1463 forbade..satin to be worn by the rank of esquire and gentlemen or lower,..[and] fustian and bustian were banned. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1424 |