Obs. 8. Also anterne. [? f. Gr. ἀνθηρ-ός flowery, bright-colored + -INE.] A kind of poplin, now obsolete.
1710. Lond. Gaz., mmmmdcclxxxvii/4. A green strip’d Poplin Mantua and Petticoat, lined with a white Antherine.
1719. J. Roberts, Spinster, 346. Stuffs mixed with silk … antherines and bombazines.
1739. in Beck, Drap. Dict. (1882), 6. Anterne, a stuff of wool and silk mixed, or of mohair and cotton.
