[Elliptical use of LASTING ppl. a.] A durable kind of cloth; = EVERLASTING B. 3.

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1782.  Pennant, Journ. Chester to Lond., 141. The making and sale of shags, camblets, lastings, tammies, &c.

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1844.  G. Dodd, Textile Manuf., iv. 113. 3–4 Lastings, 3–4 Fancy Lastings.

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1857.  J. James, Hist. Worsted Manuf., x. 363. There were different sorts of lastings as prunelles wrought with three healds. Also serge de Berry.

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1871.  Echo, 14 Jan. Other branches of trade,… such as damask and lastings, have much benefitted by the war.

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1878.  A. Barlow, Weaving, 440. Lastings, a strong cloth used for ladies’ boots and made of hard twisted yarn.

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1895.  W. G. FitzGerald, in Strand Mag., March, 311/1. The man is clothed in a suit of ‘lasting’—that curious leathery material affected by the London apprentices in the days of Queen Elizabeth.

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  b.  attrib.

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1872–6.  Voyle & Stevenson, Milit. Dict., Lasting Cloth, a material similar to prunella cloth…. It has the property of not readily catching fire.

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1892.  Labour Commission, Gloss., Lasting-shoes, shoes of which the tops or upper parts are made from lasting.

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