U. S. local. [Origin unascertained.] A kind of narrow thin silk ribbon used for edge-binding: now commonly called taffeta-binding. See also WIRE-taste.
1847. in Webster.
a 1889. F. A. P. Barnard, in New Haven (Conn.) Palladium, 18 April. If… Mrs. S. has any taste she will oblige me by sending me half a yard, no matter of what color, so it be not black.
