a. Now arch. or dial. Forms: see THREAD sb.; (also 5 therdyn). [f. THREAD sb. + -EN4.] Composed or made of thread; spec. made of linen thread.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 8351. I ȝeue not a threden lace Off thyn euel wil and thi manace!
1499. Croscombe Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.), 23. A therdyn cerchewe.
1590. Lodge, Euphues’ Gold. Leg., 59b. A dosen of new thredden points of medley coulour.
1594. Willobie, Avisa (1880), 76. Not worth in proofe a threden poynt.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., I. i. A thin thredden cloake.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 224/1. They went always covered with Threaden Caps or Hoods.
1780. Warner, Lett., 24 Aug., in Jesse, Selwyn & Contemp. (1844), IV. 366. Of his threaden sails [he] has made wings to our riches wherewith to fly away.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, s.v., Within our memory ‘threaden stockings’ were an article of Sunday apparel for village servants and apprentices.
1870. Rock, Text. Fabr., Introd. v. 127. Very fine threaden cloths … for liturgical purposes.
