Also 8 -enet, 9 -anette. [Origin unascertained: perh. a fancy trade-name; app. f. F. toile linen, cloth, the rest of the word being modelled on satinet, -ette, sarsenet, -ette, or the like (in which the n belongs to the root).] A kind of fine woollen cloth: used in the first half of the 19th c. for waistcoats of grooms, huntsmen, etc.; for later application see quot. 18582. Also attrib.
1799. Hull Advertiser, 12 Jan., 2/2. Waistcoat of kerseymere or toilenet.
1801. Nemnich, Waaren Lexicon, II. 687. Toilinet, ein feines Westenzeug von Wolle, das in Yorkshire verfertigt wird; Striped, gestreift; Checked, gewürfelt. Es ist dem Swansdown ähnlich.
1810. in Spirit Pub. Jrnls., XIV. 47. With the broad-cloth, toilinets, waistcoat and breeches-stuff.
1840. Chalmers, Chr. & Civic Econ., xxii. The making of shawls and the making of toilinette waistcoats.
1858. R. S. Surtees, Ask Mamma, lxviii. His vest [was] a canary-coloured striped toilanette, with a slightly turned-down collar.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Toilinet, a kind of German quilting; silk and cotton warp with woollen weft.
