Obs. Forms: 5–6 trype, 6 tryp, trip, (7 trape), 7–8 tripe. [a. OF. tripe (1374 in Godef., Compl.; cf. also triperie 1275), ‘étoffe de laine ou de fil travaillée comme le velours’; according to Littré, so called from its resemblance to the interior of the paunch of ruminants.] An imitation velvet of wool or thread; ‘mock-velvet,’ velveteen, fustian. Also tripe of velvet (F. tripe de velours), and tripe velvet; hence also † Triped (trypit, tript) a. applied to velvet.
c. 1430. Brut, 459. Clothed in scarlet, with furred hodes, and round standynge cappes of Trype.
1542–3. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., VIII. 176. Ane elne trype velvet, price xiiij s.
1565. in Hay Fleming, Reform. Scotl. (1910), 609. Twa stuillis coverit with trypit wellwott.
1598. Florio, Trippa, a kinde of tripe veluet that they make womens saddles with, called fustian of Naples.
1612. Inv., in A. McKay, Hist. Kilmarnock (1880), 308. Four cuschownis of tripe veluet.
1656. Acts & Ordin. Parl., c. 20 Rates (Scobell) 467. Fustians called … Naples Fustians, Trape, or Velure plain.
[cf. 1660. Act 12 Chas. II., c. 4 (Schedule of Rates), Naples fustians tript.]
1714. Fr. Bk. of Rates, 80. Tripes of Velvet, per Piece of 10 Ells 03 10.
