"tiffany" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From an Anglo-Norman common name for the festival of the Epiphany. See Tiffany.",
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      "form": "tiffanies",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Fabrics",
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          "ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, Book 6, Chapter 12, p. 284:",
          "text": "[…] the smoak of sulphur will not black paper, and is commonly used by Women to whiten Tiffanies […]",
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          "ref": "1721, Robert Samber, chapter 1, in A Treatise of the Plague, London: James Holland et al., page 8:",
          "text": "Reduce all to a very fine Powder, searsing the same through a Tiffany Searse, as you should the former.",
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          "text": "1792, Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey; or, the Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act III, Scene 1, p. 34,\n[…] he made me throw away my peasant weeds, and gave me all these fine cloaths. See this tiffany, all spotted with silver; look at this beautiful turban—He gave it me all!"
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          "ref": "1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter XII.”, in Desmond. […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, pages 167–168:",
          "text": "When, however, the matin loving lark, or ruſſet pinions, floating amid the tiffany clouds, that variegated, in fleecy undulation, the grey-inveſted heavens, hailed with his ſoul-reviving note, the radient countenance of returning morn; […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1903, E. Bartrum, The Book of Pears and Plums, London: John Lane, page 34:",
          "text": "Frost is another foe. Cordons might be protected by hoops covered with tiffany, Russian canvas, mats, or netting; bushes by nets, mats, etc.",
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          "ref": "1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 4:",
          "text": "A joy it was to see such a shifting maze of velvets, furs, curious needleworks and cloth of tissue, tiffanies, laces, ruffs, goodly chains and carcanets of gold: such glitter of jewels and weapons: such nodding of the plumes the Demons wore in their hair, half veiling the horns that grew upon their heads.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A kind of gauze, or very thin silk."
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          "ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, Book 6, Chapter 12, p. 284:",
          "text": "[…] the smoak of sulphur will not black paper, and is commonly used by Women to whiten Tiffanies […]",
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          "ref": "1721, Robert Samber, chapter 1, in A Treatise of the Plague, London: James Holland et al., page 8:",
          "text": "Reduce all to a very fine Powder, searsing the same through a Tiffany Searse, as you should the former.",
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          "text": "1792, Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey; or, the Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act III, Scene 1, p. 34,\n[…] he made me throw away my peasant weeds, and gave me all these fine cloaths. See this tiffany, all spotted with silver; look at this beautiful turban—He gave it me all!"
        },
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          "ref": "1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter XII.”, in Desmond. […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, pages 167–168:",
          "text": "When, however, the matin loving lark, or ruſſet pinions, floating amid the tiffany clouds, that variegated, in fleecy undulation, the grey-inveſted heavens, hailed with his ſoul-reviving note, the radient countenance of returning morn; […]",
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