Obs. exc. Hist. Forms: 4–9 baudekyn, baudekin, 5–9 baudkin, 6–9 bawdkin; also 4 baudekine, 4–6 bawdekyn(e, 5 bawdkyne, bawedekyn, 5–6 bawdekin, 6 baudkyn, bawdikyn, bawdkyn, 7 bodkin. [a. OF. baudekin, -quin:—med.L. baldakinus, -ekinus (= It. baldacchino), f. Baldacco, It. form of Bagdad; see BALDACHIN.]
A rich embroidered stuff, originally made with warp of gold thread and woof of silk; later, with wider application, rich brocade, rich shot silk. Sometimes, more fully, cloth of band(e)kin.
c. 1300. K. Alis., 759. He dude his temple al by-honge With bawdekyn, brod and longe.
c. 1320. Seuyn Sag. (W.), 2744. Th’ emperour was browt abedde, with riche baudekines i-spredde.
1440. Lincolnsh. Ch. Furn. (1866), 182. A vesment of baudekyn ye ground black with grene Werk.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. clvii. [cliii.] 429. Aparelled in gownes of one sute of clothe of Baudkyn, grene and crymosyn.
1536. Regist., in Antiq. Sarisb. (1771), 197. Ten Chesibles of white Bawdkin, with leaves and hearts of Gold.
1552. Huloet, Bawdkyn or Tynsel clothe.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 174. Arraied in cloth of gold of the most pretious and costly Bawdkin.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., V. 241. Women apparrelled in cloth of bodkin.
1861. H. Ainsworth, Constable of T., 43. Her dress was of gold bawdkin.
attrib. c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 27. Bawdekyn clothe, olosericus.
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., XIV. note. Surcoat of scarlet, likewise of bawdkin work.
1843. Lytton, Last Bar., II. ii. 124. The baudekin stripes (blue and gold) of her tunic attested her royalty.
