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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Phillip and cheny. Also: phillepe and cheny, phillip and cheyne, philipe and jeane; phillopainchina, phillipinchena, philipengyn; philp and chinais, philipchina, philipschun. [e.m.E. philip and cheyney (c 1614), phillipp and china, phillipine cheny (1668), f. as Phillip,n. and cheyney, cheney, etc., varr. of China.Cf. F. Chiné, étoffes chinées, f. chiner ‘to give different colours to the threads of the warp, and arrange these so as to produce a pattern’ (OED.).Cf. also e.m.E. Philip and Cheiny, ‘an expression for two (or more) men of the common people taken at random (cf. ‘Tom, Dick and Harry’)’ (1542–73 in OED.).]

Worsted or mixed woollen material of common quality. 1614 1st Rep. Hist. MSS. 137.
Ane blak phillepe and cheny suitt printet 1618 Edinb. Test. L. 163 b.
Ellevin elnis … phillopainchina black at xxx s. the elne 1620 Ib. 352.
Certane remanes of … philp and chinais [etc.] 1621 Jas. Bell in Glasg. Her. (1864) 25 June.
Mair 2 stik philipengyn at 5 lib. stik 1626 Edinb. Test. LIII. 344 b.
xlj ellis of philipe and jeane 1627 Ib. LIV. 167 b.
Thrie peice philipschun 1635 Ib. LVII. 55.
Philipchina 1637 Ib. LVIII. 83.
Phillipinchena 1642 Ib. LX. 194.
Fower haill peices of phillip and cheyne