sb. Obs. Forms: 6–8 fris(e-, frysado(w(e, (6 fres-, frisc-, friz-, 7 friez(e)ado(w), 7– frizado. [a. Sp. frisado (obs.), explained to mean ‘silk plush,’ f. frisar = Fr. friser to curl (hair), raise a nap on (cloth); see FRIZZ, FRIEZE vbs.] A fine kind of frieze. Also attrib.

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1542.  Nottingham Rec., III. 220. One Spaynes cloke of frysado.

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1546.  O. Johnson, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. II. 175. Untill I have made sale of the frisados and lynnen cloeth.

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1600.  Vaughan, Direct. Health (1633), 165. In Winter, your upper garment must be of Cotton or Friezeadow.

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1630.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Praise Hempseed, Wks. III. 64/1. Our cottons, penistones, frizadoes, baze.

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1719.  D’Urfey, Pills, III. 272. And an old Frysadoe Coat to cover his Worship’s trunk Hose.

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  Hence † Frizado v. intr., to produce the appearance of frizado. In quot. transf.

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1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. IV. Handie-crafts, 591. A cleer Brook … Whose gurgling streams frizado’d on the gravell.

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