taffetas

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of taffeta

   “On one table were Indian cabinets, wrought in ivory, ebony, tortoise-shell, and amber; on another were the exquisite porcelain of Dresden and Sèvres; a third was heaped with gold and silver stuffs; a fourth, with the colours of the rainbow, in embroidered taffetas; close beside were perfumed gloves, and the rich ribands of Lyons, and velvets from Genoa fit for the mantle of a Queen”