Sc. Obs. [a. F. bisette ‘plate of gold, silver, or copper, wherewith some kindes of stuffé are striped’ (Cotgr.). Cf. Littré.] Lace or binding of gold, silver, silk, etc.
1561. Invent. (1815), 154 (Jam.). Thre curtenis of crammosie dames … enrichet upoun the seames with a litle bisset of gold. Ibid., 221. And wrocht with small silver bissettis wantand bodeis.
1568. in Chalmers, Life Q. Mary (1818), I. 285. 300 elns of small silken bissetis.
