Note 210 — Chapter IV
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Ciclatoun, according to Rock, p. xxxix, is a common Persian name for such tissues in the East. This, in common with nasick, nak, and many other beautiful tissues, was wrought in gold with figures of birds and beasts.—Yule’s “Marco Polo,” ed. 1875, i. p. 65.
Dr. Rock quotes the old ballad,—
“In a robe right royall bowne, Of a red ciclatoune, Be her fader’s syde; A coronall on her hede sett, Her clothes with byrdes of gold were bette All about for pryde.”