a. Obs. Also 6 lewkes, lukys. [ad. Du. Luiksch, f. Luik Liège, a town and province of Belgium.] Made at Liège; said esp. of velvet.
[1472. in Rogers, Agric. & Prices, III. 351/1. Lukys [iron].]
1536. Wardr. Acc. Hen. VIII., in Archæologia, IX. 248. A coote of blacke lukys veluette.
1545. Lanc. Wills, II. 63. A jaket of fyne lukes velvet.
1547. Boorde, Introd. Knowl., xii. (1870), 155. The lond of Lewke is a pleasaunt countre. The cheefe towne is the cytie of Lewke; there is Lewkes veluet made, & cloth of Arys.
