Obs. Also 7 fara-, faren-, farin-, farran-, ferrandine, farrender, far(r)endon, farwendine, 8 farandain. [a. F. ferrandine, said to be f. Ferrand name of the inventor c. 1630 (Littré Suppl.).] a. A kind of cloth used in the seventeenth century, made partly of silk and partly of wool or hair. b. A dress made of this material. Also attrib.
1663. Pepys, Diary, 28 Jan. Her new ferrandin waistecoate.
1666. Lady Hatton, in Hatton Corr. (1878) I. 50. Farrender for a gowne.
1668. Sedley, Mulb. Gard., V. i.
| If I were your Wife, I must board | |
| Half a year with a Friend in the Country, tumble | |
| About the other half in most villainous Hackneys, | |
| Lye two pair of Stairs high, and wear black | |
| Farrendine the whole year about. |
1672. Wycherley, Love in Wood, V. i. I know a great lady that cannot follow her husband abroad to his haunts, because her farrandine is so ragged and greasy; whilst his mistress is as fine as fivepence in embroidered sattins.
1685. Lond. Gaz., No. 2078/4. Six Bredths of Peach-Colour Faradine.
1673. Fountainhall, in Suppl. Dec. (1826), III. 2. Farandains … are part silk, part hair.
