Obs. Also 7–8 -ine. [app. aphetic deriv. of F. étamine (in OF. estamine) STAMIN.] A thin woollen stuff: = STAMIN. Also attrib.
1552. in J. C. Jeaffreson, Middlesex County Rec. (1886), I. 8. Unum par manicarum de serico vocato tamin [pr. tawin] damaske ad valenciam v.s.
1611. Cotgr., Estamine, the stuffe Tamine; also, a strayner, searce, boulter, or boulting cloth.
1625. Massinger, New Way, III. ii. I took her up in an old tamin gown.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. lvi. Their stockins were of tamine [F. estamet] or of cloth-serge.
1714. Fr. Bk. of Rates, 366. Cloth-Rash and Tamine common.
[1822. Nares, Tamine, a sort of woollen cloth; probably the same that is now called tammy.]
¶ b. A strainer or bolter, of this stuff; TAMIS 1.
1847. in Webster. Hence in later dicts.; perh. never in use.
