stamin1t, staminet (stamin)

[ OF. estame = It. stame, yarn, worsted): see stamen. Hence, by irreg. variation, stammel, tamin, tamine, taminy, tammy, tamis.] A woolen stamin cloth, or linsey-woolsey. It is mentioned as a cloth for common wear; but its cost was not so low as to indicate the coarsest kind of cloth. In the quotation apparently a tapestry. She had ywoven in a stamin [var. stames ] large How she was broght from Athenes in a barge. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 2360.