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ǁ Tilleul. World English Historical Dictionary

ǁ Tilleul. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. ǁ Tilleul [F. tilleul linden-tree:—L. *tiliolus, dim. of *tilius = tilia linden.]

1   1.  A lime or linden-tree.

2 1530.  Palsgr., 281/1. Tylleull, a kynde of frute [error for tree], tilleul.

3 1825–9.  Mrs. Sherwood, Lady of Manor, II. xiv. 180. The gardens of orange trees; the avenues of tilleul; the groves of myrtle.

4   2.  attrib. a. Name of a shade of color: a pale yellowish green like that of the leaves of the lime-tree.

5 1880.  Sanislaus County Weekly News, 30 Jan., 1/6. She had the same old everlasting black silk, made over with a vest of tilleul green silk.

6 1884.  Cassell’s Fam. Mag., May, 371/2. A light tilleul ground, just the tint of lettuce, shot with white.

7 1909.  Daily Chron., 26 June, 4/5. Lady St. Germans … becomingly dressed in tilleul voile.

8   b.  Tilleul tea, an infusion of lime-tree flowers, used as a remedy for headache, etc.

9 1908.  Daily Chron., 14 Nov., 4/4. Ordinary tea [has been replaced] by the bitter-tasted tilleul variety, which was first on show at an hotel in Paris.

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