English Online Dictionary. What means tiffany? What does tiffany mean?
English
Etymology
From an Anglo-Norman common name for the festival of the Epiphany. See Tiffany.
Noun
tiffany (countable and uncountable, plural tiffanies)
- A kind of gauze, or very thin silk.
- 1792, Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey; or, the Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act III, Scene 1, p. 34,[3]
- […] he made me throw away my peasant weeds, and gave me all these fine cloaths. See this tiffany, all spotted with silver; look at this beautiful turban—He gave it me all!