Obs. Also 6 boratta. [app. a. It. buratto ‘sort of thin transparent cloth.’] A thin fabric: cf. BOLT v.1, also BOLTER vbl. sb.1, BOLTING.
1578. Richmond. Wills (1853), 276. ix yeards of borato at ijs. vjd. a yeard.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., V. iii. (ed. 7), 533. Taffaties, Borattas, Grograines.
1660. Act 12 Chas. II., iv. Sched., Boratoes or Bombasines—narrow, the single piece not above 15 yards.
1720. Stow’s Surv. (1754), II. V. ix. 266/2. Borratose, wrought with silk containing under twenty yards.
