1 gen 1680 anni - foin

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The ‘foin’ was an animal of the marten kind, called the stone marten by Veale, and its fur was popular from the late Middle Ages. In Yorkshire the usual spelling was ‘foynes’, in the plural, and it generally referred to fur used to trim or line garments, especially men’s gowns: 1392 <i>unam togam ... furratam cum foygnes</i>, Swinton in Ryedale (SS4/164); 1441 <i>Roberto Thornton meam nigram togam furratam cum foynes</i>, Oswaldkirk (SS30/82); 1529 <i>my blak velved gown furred with foynes</i>, Featherstone (SS116/125); 1561 <i>my best gowne lyned with foynes</i>, Leeds (Th27/337); 1680 ‘The Mayor shall have and wear in his best gown a <i>fayce of furr</i> called <i>foymes </i>[sic]’, Beverley (YRS84/43).

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