tissued

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In rough magnificence array'd, When ancient Chivalry display'd The pomp of her heroic games, And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled, at the clarion's call, In some proud castle's high arch'd hall.

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir

National industry did all in its power to surmount this ignominious condition; she specially turned her attention to the manufacture of silks and of stuffs tissued with gold and silver.

From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by Jacob, P. L.

Adorn'd with nature's brightest dyes, Whose gadding wing, and tissued plume, Allure so many wandering eyes.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)

“Her Maiestie doth straightly charge and command— “That none under the degree of a Countess wear: Cloth of gold or silver tissued; Silke of coulor purple.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

Yea, everything ran with sunshine, as we are full of blood, and plants are tissued from green-gold, glistening sap.

From The Trespasser by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)