tissued

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And the Chamberlain and the high officers of State came in and made obeisance to him, and the pages brought him the robe of tissued gold, and set the crown and the sceptre before him.

From A House of Pomegranates by Wilde, Oscar

“Her Maiestie doth straightly charge and command— “That none under the degree of a Countess wear: Cloth of gold or silver tissued; Silke of coulor purple.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

Yea, everything ran with sunshine, as we are full of blood, and plants are tissued from green-gold, glistening sap.

From The Trespasser by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Adorn'd with nature's brightest dyes, Whose gadding wing, and tissued plume, Allure so many wandering eyes.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)

So saying, he number’d carefully the gold, The vases, tripods bright, and tissued robes, 260 But nothing miss’d of all.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William