Also 4 lawmpas, 6 lampors. [The combination lampas douck (Du. doek cloth) in the second quot. suggests that the word may be adopted from Du.; the recorded form in MDu. and early mod.Du. is lampers (cf. the Eng. form lampors); mod.Du. has lamfer (the MDu. lamfeter, denoting some appurtenance of a hawk, is identified with this by Verwijs and Verdam, but with doubtful correctness). The etymology is quite obscure; derivation from Gr. λαμπρός, shining, was suggested in the 16th c. In sense 2 the Eng. word is a. F. lampas, recorded only from the 18th c., and possibly a different word.]
† 1. A kind of glossy crape. Obs.
1390. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), I. 130. Half a pes of lawmpas … A volet of lawmpas neu.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII. (1809), 519. Ye orrelettes were of rolles wrethed on Lampas douck holow so that the Golde shewed thorow the Lampas douck.
1559. Letter (N.). Before the stoole of estate satt another mayde, all clothyd in white, and her face coveryd with white lampors.
2. A kind of flowered silk, originally imported from China.
1851. Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib., 1262. Piece of figured lampas, in Algerian silk, crop of 1850, manufactured at Lyons.
1889. Pall Mall Gaz., 17 April, 2/1. The new-made Countess, who is in white lampas, with spotless ermine and yellow for relief.
1894. Daily News, 1 April, 3/1. The overdress is in rich lampas of the same period.
