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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Trip(e, Tryp(e, n.² Also: tryip, trypp-, traipe. [Late ME and e.m.E. trype (c1430), tripe (1598), OF tripe (1317 in Wartburg) a sort of velour or plush in which the nap was of wool, the weft of hemp, and which was often used for covering furniture. Cf. OF triperie (1275 in Godefroy) a factory for the manufacture of this material.] An imitation velvet. Also comb. and attrib. 1572 Edinb. Test. II 222b.
Ane steik of reid trype 1579 Edinb. Test. VII 259b.
Ten eln of vnlustart tryp price the eln xvj s., … foure eln of lustart tryp price of the eln xx s. 1589 Treas. Acc. MS 164b.
Fyne lustart tryp to be tua sadillis 1620 Reg. Privy C. XII 339.
Stuffis of half elne breid … chamblettis, burettis, tryppis 1631 Edinb. Test. LV 136b.
Twentie tua ellis of figurat trypescomb. (1) 1551–2 Treas. Acc. X 51.
vj cussingis of blew tripe [pr. cripe] welwett 1542–3 Treas. Acc. VIII 176.
Ane elne trype velvet, price xiiij s. … xxv elnis trip velvet 1554–5 Edinb. B. Rec. II 208.
For xviij cushingis of trype weluot deliuerit to the counsalhous to the lordis of sessioun 1562 Inv. Wardrobe 155.
Burdclaithis of blak tryp velvot figurit with twa cusscheonis of the same 1612 Brechin Test. II 252b.
Tryip veluot(b) 1562 6th Rep. Hist. MSS App. 647/2.
Ane frontell of reid traipe velwat(2) 1570–1 Treas. Acc. XII 233.
Sex elnis of trype sak cloith, the elne viij s.attrib. 1635 Haddington Corr. 303.
Ane blew tryp cusheoune

b. Tripe of lynning, silk, velvet, worset, an imitation or inferior form (of the material specified). 1582 Edinb. Test. XI 159b.
Sex elne of trip of silk price of the elne tuentie schillingis 1601 Edinb. B. Rec. VI 311.
Trype of velvot with trype of lynning and worset, trype of cleine lynning and to lit and luster the foirsaidis trypes in all maner of cullouris