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Tabill-claith, Taffill-cloath, n. Also: table-, taiffill-, tuffell- and -cloth. [Late ME and e.m.E. tabylle clothe (1467), tablecloth (1496), table clothe (1575).] A table-cloth. Cf. Tabill-carpet n.(a) 1617 Burns Benef. Lect. 137.
Couppes, tablis, and table clothes for the ministratione of the holie communioune
1618 Burns Benef. Lect. 137.
Table claithis
1618 Ritchie Ch. S. Baldred 168.
Tabill claithis
1623 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 281.
Tabill clothis
1632 Inv. Newark 3a.
Ane reid cloath bed with table cloath with two littell reid cheyres conform thairto
a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 32.
That all parrochin kirks be provyded with basins and lavars for baptisme, cupes tables and table cloaths for the comunione
1648 Linlithgow Palace 332.
Tabill cloaths of damase
1651 Edinb. Test. LXV 148b.
Ane cambrig tabill cloath
1652 Edinb. Test. LXVI 150a.
Four old carpett tabill cloathes
1670 Boyd Fam. P. No. 297.
A lytill drink tabillcloath of sax quarters long and fyve quarters broad £1 16 s.
1691 Soc. Ant. LIII 59.
Ane duzone of fyne naprie and ane table cloath at £18
(b) 1645 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III 44.
A taiffill [pr. taissill cloth] cloth
1660 Wedderburn Bk. II 43.
Ane pand and courtines for surrounding ane bed, with ane tuffell cloath, all of green cloath
1660 Wedderburn Bk. II 43.
Taffill cloath

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