cyprus cipres, or cypress, a fine transparent stuff, similar to crape, either white or black, but
more commonly the latter, TWELFTH
NIGHT, iii. 1. 118; THE
WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4. 216 (It appears by a letter of H. Walpole to Sir H. Mann,
dated April 25th, 1743, that even at this period cypress was synonymous with crape.
“"If one did lose a husband or a lover, there are those becoming
comforts, weeds and cypresses, jointures and
weeping Cupids."”
Letters , vol. i. p. 240,
ed. Cunningham.
)