ppl. a. [f. prec. vb. (or sb.) + -ED.]

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  1.  Woven; spec. woven with gold or silver thread: see TISSUE sb. 1 a and v.

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1584.  in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), 365. The pages sute of Oringe tawney tissued vellet.

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1619.  Rutland MSS. (1905), IV. 516. 19 yardes 1/2 of tissued grogram at 48s. the yard.

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1790.  Cowper, Mother’s Picture, 75. Thy vesture’s tissu’d flowers.

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1879.  Farrar, St. Paul (1883), 224. He entered the theatre … in an entire robe of tissued silver.

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  fig.  1629.  Milton, Ode Nativity, 146. Mercy … With radiant feet the tissued clouds down stearing.

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1789.  E. Darwin, Bot. Gard. (1791), II. 52. Long threads of silver light Dart on swift shuttles o’er the tissued night!

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1790.  Merry, Laurel Lib., 7. Where starry Night weaves thick her tissued rays.

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  2.  Dressed or arrayed in ‘tissue’: see TISSUE sb. 1.

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? 16[?].  Wharton (Webster, 1864), Crested knights and tissued dames.

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