Obs. Also 6 sollace. [Of obscure origin.] Some substance used for dressing cloth.
1552. Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI., c. 6 § xiv. Whether the same Clothe or Clothes be well and sufficientlye dressed and pressed withe the colde presse, without puttinge therto flox, solace, chalke, flower, or any other deceiptfull thinge.
c. 1560. Maldon Liber B. fol. 56 (MS.). Without puttinge therto flocks, sollace, chalke, flower, heare, or any yearne made of lambes wooll.
1613. May, Decl. Est. Clothing, v. 29. Flox of the same coulour … which they can sheare as small as dust, which mixt with solace, they spread vpon the musters, and where the cloth may bee seene.
