arch. or Obs. [a. (ultimately) Arab. aṭlas ‘smooth, bare,’ thence ‘smooth silk cloth,’ f. ṭalasa to rub smooth, delete. Cf. in same sense It. raso shaved, satin. Also in G. atlas satin.] A silk-satin manufactured in the East.
1687. Lond. Gaz., No. 2273/7. Atlasses 549 pieces.
1706. T. Baker, Tunbr. Walks, I. i. Fat city-ladies with tawdry atlasses.
c. 1710. in J. Ashton, Soc. Life Reign Q. Anne (1882), I. 167. One Purple and Gold Atlas Gown.
1766. J. H. Grose, Voy. E. Indies (1772), I. 117. Their Atlasses or satin flowered with gold and silver.
