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noun

Tiffany n. A species of gause, or very silk. "The smoke of sulphur... is commonly used by women to whiten tiffanies."

adjective

Tiffany adj.

Made of stained glass by, or in the style of objects made by, Louis C. Tiffany; as, a Tiffany lamp.

Made by or purchased from the Tiffany corporation (with headquarters in New York City); as, Tiffany jewelry.

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Etymology of 'Tiffany'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tiffany" Quotes from Famous Books

... 37; but compare the claim made in behalf of the Puritan Whitaker, "apostle to the Indians" thirty years earlier (Tiffany, "Protestant Episcopal Church," p. 18); compare also the work of the Lutheran Campanius in New Sweden (Jacobs, ...

— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon

... not," rejoined the lady. "You know I didn't mean any such thing. I saw a perfectly beautiful lamp in Tiffany's last Wednesday, and it would go ...

— The Booming of Acre Hill - And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life • John Kendrick Bangs

... place. They made, in fact, a masked battery behind the decorous office blinds, and there lay in wait as simply excited as children until at last the stem of the luckless Wetterhorn appeared, beating and rolling at quarter speed over the recently reconstructed pinnacles of Tiffany's. Promptly that one-gun battery unmasked. The airship's look-out man must have seen the whole of the tenth story of the Dexter building crumble out and smash in the street below to discover the black ...

— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... times, except when the trees are bearing fruit heavily. Train the shoots about 6 in. apart, removing all the wood-buds except one at the base of the shoot and one at the point. Keep the flowers dry and free from frost by means of an overhead shelter, to which tiffany or canvas can be attached, which should, however, only be used so long as the cold weather lasts. To ensure good fruit, thin the same out to 6 in. apart as soon as it attains the size of a small pea, ...

— Gardening for the Million • Alfred Pink

... paper—not a characteristic, certainly, of our great newspapers now-a-days, of which the material is very flimsy; the impression was fairly executed; the price was three dollars a year. In 1794, the form was changed to a quarto, and one Tiffany had become the proprietor. When the Gazette was removed to York, in 1800, with all the Government offices, the Messrs. Tiffany started the Constellation, which, Dr. Scadding tells us, illustrated the jealousy which the people of the Niagara district felt at seeing York ...

— The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People • John George Bourinot

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