Of my Adventure with Madam Taffetas the Widow, I am not disposed to say much.
Madam Taffetas was an exceedingly comely person, amazingly well dressed, and, as I was given to understand, in very prosperous circumstances.
That meeting Madam Taffetas in a side box at Drury Lane play-house, She was pleased to accept my Addresses, and to inform me that my conversation was in the highest degree tasteful to her.
It was of pale blue taffetas striped in a darker blue, with the corsage cut in basques, and the underskirt of a similar taffetas, but unstriped.
The Delancey of the Saturday Evening Post and the Strand, of the taffetas curtains and the cottage in Devonshire.
In the hall, St. John's housekeeper, in a blacktaffetas apron, welcomed her.
I thought of the taffetas curtains and the cigars, but I answered quite truthfully.
And there was his flat in Grafton Street with the beautiful new taffetas curtains and the cigars that had just arrived from Havana, with his own initials on.
The mighty Lombard pillars on either side--supporting a triforium gallery of circular arches and slender pillars of marble fretwork, delicate as lace--are wreathed and twined with red taffetas bound with golden bands.
So we cried together, and were comforted; and I wore the green taffetas to the fair.
But when I came home again to Eisleben, I felt more ashamed of myself than of the taffetas dress or of the flattering ladies at the Castle.
What else he wished was never known, for at that moment round the block of cane came a big man in biscuit-coloured taffetas followed by two negroes in cotton drawers who were armed with cutlasses.
It was a singularly elegant and characteristically Spanish suit of black taffetas with silver lace that had been made for him a year ago in Cadiz, and he knew each detail of it so well that it was impossible he could now be mistaken.
He had much more the air of a lounger in the Mall or the Alameda--the latter rather, since his elegant suit of violet taffetas with gold-embroidered button-holes was in the Spanish fashion.
The taffetas flore has a white ground, covered with small bouquets of wild field flowers.
The taffetas rose has wreaths of large roses, brochees in white silk round each skirt, and rose-buds over the top skirt and body.
They confess their disappointment at finding in them nothing more tempting than some taffetas embroidered with Chinese gold, and a bunch of seed-pearl.
He wore a ruff-band, a pair of black cut taffetas breeches, and ash-coloured silk stockings, thus combining his taste for magnificence with a decent regard for the occasion.
A hollow Globe 12 feet Diameter was formed of what is called in England Oiled Silk, here Taffetas gomme, the Silk being impregnated with a Solution of Gum elastic in Lintseed Oil, as is said.
In winter the veil is abandoned in favour of a shawl of white taffetas fringed with gold, worn over a modified version of the summer kokoschink, in pale blue silk, embroidered with seed pearls and gold.
The throat is hidden by an unyielding cravat of white taffetas ruled with fine gold cord, the short ends crossed under the chin; and the shoes are of morocco or velvet, with a design worked in gold threads.
In Zaragoza are sixty looms, which consume fifty thousand pounds of silk; but taffetas only are manufactured there.
The Spanish taffetas and guadamecies, so highly esteemed in other provinces, are held of no account in this one (Madrid).
Silk stuffs, satins, velvets, and taffetas are made here, but there is no great manufactory of them.
The town of Murcia is the only place where they work some small quantity; there they manufacture a few slight silks, chiefly taffetas and velvets, but of an inferior quality; and the whole is confined to a small number of looms.
Item une robbe de drap dor a louvrage de camelot [this seems to be woven or embroidered in circles or rondeaux] doublee de velours vert et taffetas vert et bordee de satin cramoisy.
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