tiffany

name

1. A northern English surname.
2. A female given name transferred from the surname.

   “"That's her real name, you know. I mean, a lot of girls working the topless joints, they take exotic, sexy names...well, Tiffany Carter, for example...but that was the name Tracy was born with."”

   “Tiffany Henyard’s tumultuous tenure as mayor of south suburban Dolton is coming to an end, and voters were very clear about ousting her.”

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of Tiffany glass.
2. (countable, uncountable)A kind of gauze, or very thin silk.

   “[…] the smoak of sulphur will not black paper, and is commonly used by Women to whiten Tiffanies […]”

   “Reduce all to a very fine Powder, searsing the same through a Tiffany Searse, as you should the former.”

   “1792, Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey; or, the Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act III, Scene 1, p. 34, […] 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!”

   “When, however, the matin loving lark, or ruſſet pinions, floating amid the tiffany clouds, that variegated, in fleecy undulation, the grey-inveſted heavens, hailed with his ſoul-reviving note, the radient countenance of returning morn; […]”

   “Frost is another foe. Cordons might be protected by hoops covered with tiffany, Russian canvas, mats, or netting; bushes by nets, mats, etc.”