Obs. Forms: 4 tarterine, 5 -yn(e, -en, -on; 4–5 tartaryn(e, 5 -en(e, -on(e, (-yan), tarturyn, (tatterine), tarturne; 6 tartarne, -erne, -orn(e, tartron, 6–7 tartern, 7 tartarin, -ine. [a. OF. Tartarin = med.L. Tartarīn-us, f. Tartar-us, TARTAR sb.2 and 3, with suffix -INE1, as in Tarentine, etc. (med.L. pl. Tartarīnī also embodying the notion ‘people of Tartarus’); in OF. also in sense 2.]
1. = TARTAR sb.2 1; in pl. = med.L. Tartarīnī.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 5484. Of terands of þir tartaryns twa & twenti kyngs.
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), xxi. 224. Tartarynes [Roxb. xxiv. folk of Tartre] & þei þat duelle in the grete Asye, þei camen of Cham.
c. 1400. Three Kings Cologne, 148. Þe wich pepil cleped hem-self Tartaryns.
2. A rich stuff, apparently of silk, imported from the East, prob. from China through Tartary; = TARTAR sb.3 Cf. SARSENET. [OF. tartarin, earlier drap tartarin (1295 in Godef.).]
1343. Enrolled Acc. (W. & H.), 3 m. 38 b. ij vlnis panni serici ix peciis Tartaryn et j pecia Samitell.
1345–9. Wardr. Acc. Edw. III., in Archæologia, XXXI. 72/2. j. frontale de tartaryn. Ibid., 85/2. vj. vln. de Tartaryn.
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), xxiii. 255. Cloþes of gold, & of Camakaas, & tartarynes [Roxb. xxvi. 125 tartarene, F. text tartaires].
1407. Nottingham Rec., II. 50. Pro dimidia virga de viridi tarteren, xviij d.
1411. in Somerset Medieval Wills (1901), 50. [One hanging of black and white] ‘Wyrsted’ ’cum penna de Tatterine.’
14[?]. Epiph., in Tundale’s Vis., etc. (1843), 114. Wer ther of gold any clothes fownde Of sylke damaske or of tartryn.
1444. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), II. 110. Myn aulter-clothe of reed tarteryn with ye corteyns.
1455. Coventry Leet Bk., 283. To make a newe pensell in Tarturne xvj d.
1459. in Somerset Medieval Wills (1901), 191. Curteynes of tarteron.
1512. Acc. 4 Hen. VIII., c. 6. Preamble, Saten, sarsenet, tartron, chamblet, and every other Cloth of Silke.
c. 1530. Ld. Berners, Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814), 381. Florence layd her downe in her bedde in a lyghte kyrtell of chaungeable vyolet tartorne.
1538. in Lett. Suppress. Monasteries (Camden), 268. ij. copes of redd tartarne.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VII., 1 b. Ye third [standard] was of yelowe tarterne, in the which was peinted a donne kowe.
1661. Morgan, Sph. Gentry, IV. i. 5. Having Mantles of silk over a Kirtle of red Tartarin.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 55/2. Another puts on him a Kirtle of red Silk or Tartarine.
fig. c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 30. Thi chekes hangen, thyn eyene wax read as wyne, And wel belyned with good read tartaryne.
attrib. a. 1400–50. Alexander, 1547 (MS. D). Tyrett alle in tonacles of tartaren webbys.
[1861. Our Eng. Home, 92. The rich taffeta, the velvets, and Tartaren silks, were often worn without a shred of underclothing.]
