A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present

by Richard Chenevix Trench

Every place was hanged with cloth of gold, cloth of silver, tinsel, arras, tapestry, and what not.—Stubbes, Anatomy of Abuses, p. 18.

[He] never cared for silks or sumptuous cost,

For cloth of gold, or tinsel figurie,

For baudkin, broidery, cutworks, nor conceits.

Gascoigne, The Steel Glass.

Her garments all were wrought of beaten gold,

And all her steed with tinsel-trappings shone.

Spenser, Fairy Queen, iii. 1, 15.

Tobacconist. Now the seller, once the smoker, of tobacco.

Germany hath not so many drunkards, England tobacconists, France dancers, Holland mariners, as Italy alone hath jealous husbands.—Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sect. 3.