_Alamode._ A thin, light, glossy black silk. Used for hoods (1676); for hat bands and covered with black crape (1702). _Alepine_, _Alapeen_, _Allapine_. A mixed stuff either of wool and silk or mohair and cotton. _Algiers Cloth._ Essex Co. (Mass.), Court Records (1680). _Attabanies_, Silk. Boston Gazette, June 29, 1729. _Baize, Bays._ A coarse woolen stuff, having a long nap, formerly, when made of finer and lighter texture, used as material for clothing. Used for a waistcoat (1634). Pepys owned a cloak of Colchester bayze (1667). Red bays was used for underpetticoats (1732). First introduced into England about 1561. _Barber's Stuff._ 1-3/4 yards, 5/. Essex Co. (Mass.) Probate (1654). _Barley Corns, Dresden._ Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757; Boston News-Letter, July 16, 1761. BARRATINE. A woven fabric. A black barratine mantua and petticoat (1689). Barratees (sic) from Frankfort (1745). _Barronet_, Silk, query, Barrantine. BEARSKIN. A shaggy kind of woolen cloth used for overcoats. _Belgrades_, Silk. Boston News-Letter, Mar. 28, 1723. _Bendoarines_, Striped. Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757. BENGAL. Piece goods (apparently of different kinds) exported from Bengal in the seventeenth century. Bengal stripes, striped ginghams, originally from Bengal were afterwards manufactured at Paisley, Scotland. "Bengalls and Painted Callicoes used for Hanging of Rooms" (1680). There are two sorts, fine striped and plain (1696). Thin slight stuff, made of silk and hair, for women's apparel (1755). _Berlins_, Double. Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757. _Bezoarines, Tobine._ Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757. _Birds' Eyes._ A fabric marked as with birds' eyes. A yellow birds-eye hood (1665). Olive colored birds' eye silk (1689). _Bombasine_, _Bombazeen_, _Bombase_. A twilled or corded dress material, composed of silk and worsted; sometimes of cotton and worsted or worsted alone. In black, much used for mourning. A doublet of white bombasyne (1572). Pepys owned a black bombazin suit (1666). _Bream._ 4 yards 4/. Essex Co. (Mass.) Probate (1674). _Bredaws_, Silk. Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757. _Broglios_, Changeable. Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757. _Buckrum._ At first a fine linen or cotton fabric; later stiffened with gum or paste. A cross of blue buckrum for the rood (1475). Vestments of blue buckam (1552). Our gallants wear fine laces upon buckram (1665). _Burdett._ A cotton fabric. A blue burdit mantua and petticoat (1710). _Cabbis._ A coarse cheap serge. A carpet of cadys for the table (1536). A blue saddlecloth bound with green and white caddis (1691). The varigated cloaths of the Highlanders (1755).