tammies

Updated: May 10, 2025

To the former country the exportation of manufactured silks of all sorts is said to have been to the value of 600,000l.; of linen, sail-cloth, and canvass, about 700,000l.; in beaver hats, watches, clocks, and glass, about 220,000l.; in paper, about 90,000l.; in iron ware, the manufacture of Auvergne, chiefly, about 40,000l.; in shalloons, tammies, &c. from Picardy and Champagne, about 150,000l.; in wines, about 200,000l.; and brandies, about 80,000l.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 : Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and : Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth : Century, By William Stevenson

Only odd remnants of the meet, straggling foot-passengers, terriers straining at a strap held by drunken runners some in old Beaufort coats, others in corduroy one-horse shays of every description by the sides of the road and sloppy girls with stick and tammies standing in gaps of the fences, straining their eyes across the fields to see the hounds.

Margot Asquith - Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One