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“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 Sutherland Menzies

The higher guests approach a room of state, Where tissued couches all around were set Labour’d with art; o’er ivory tables thrown, Embroider’d carpets fell in folds adown.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

At length an individual figure among the tissued huntsmen, as he gazed upon them more fixedly, seemed to leave the arras and to approach the bed of the slumberer.

From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott

Meanwhile we "cornered" and "tissued" and "laced" and "labeled."

From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

So saying, he number’d carefully the gold, The vases, tripods bright, and tissued robes, 260 But nothing miss’d of all.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper


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