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Webster 1913 Edition

Cyprus

Cy′prus

(s?′pr?s)
,
Noun.
[OE.
cipres
,
cypirs
; perh. so named as being first manufactured in Cyprus. Cf.
Cipers
.]
A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning.
[Obs.]
Lawn as white as driven snow,
Cyprus
black as e’er was crow.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Cyprus

CYPRUS

,
Noun.
A thin transparent black stuff.

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