Obs. [app. an altered form of TABINE, = Du. tabijn, ad. It. tabino (Florio), by-form of tabi (see TABBY), whence also Ger. tabin, of which tobin is cited by Heyse, Fremdwörterbuch, as an upper German variant.] = TABINE.
1755. The Card, II. xi. 59. With superior lustre shine in simple lutestring or tobine.
1799. G. Smith, Laboratory, II. 45. There are likewise lutestring tobines, which commonly are striped with flowers in the warp, and sometimes between the tobine stripes, with brocaded sprigs.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Tobine, a stout twilled silk.
