or stand-further-off, subs. phr. (old).—See quots.
1630. TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), Workes. Certaine Sonnets, in praise of Mr. Thomas the deceased; fashioned of diuers stuffs, as mockado, fustian, STAND-FURTHER OFF, and motley, etc. [Title].
1665. FULLER, The Church History of Britain, vi. 332. False miracles, … like the stuffe called STAND-FARRE-OFF, must not have the beholder too near, lest the coursnesse thereof doth appeare. Ibid. (1662), Worthies, ‘Norwich.’ In my child-hood there was one [cloth] called STAND-FAR-OFF (the embleme of Hypocrisie), which seemed pretty at competent distance, but discovered its coarseness when nearer to the eye.
