† caffoycafoyn.
Obsolete.
1. Some kind of fabric, imported in the 18th cent.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric from specific place > [noun]
irislams1375
westvale1383
hinderland1465
ypir?1517
Normandy1529
Ghentish1545
mant1575
Scots cloth1581
northerna1592
turquesques1594
Westphalia1612
nilla1614
phota1616
Norwich stuff1618
Venus1629
nicanee1652
East India1659
caffoy1678
Bengal1681
Mantua1699
coffoy1703
Chello1712
negannepaut1725
Russia drab1741
Wilton1744
toile de Jouy1784
sorting-cloth1847
rum-swizzle1851
sarong1858
Yokohama1879
Turkoman1881
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Milanese1926
leso1961
1678 London Gaz. No. 1278/4 Cuffoye.
1750 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria (1752) 686 Products of Abbeville, as Plush, Caffoy, Ticking, etc.
2. caffoy paper n. a kind of (?) flock paper used for covering walls in the middle of the 18th cent.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [noun] > wall-paper > types of
stucco paper1749
caffoy paper1750
flock-paper1750
domino paper1839
wood-hanging1869
Morris1872
velvet-paper1875
flock1881
lincrusta1882
anaglypta1887
screen print1928
scenics1934
1750 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 562 The [wall] paper is pearl coloured caffoy paper; the pattern like damask.
1755 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 385 My dining room..is hung with mohair cafoy paper.
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