1882, Richard Johnson (of Hereford, Eng.), The Ancient Customs of the City of Hereford: With Translations of the Earlier City Charters and Grants; Also, Some Account of the Trades of the City, and Other Information Relative to Its Early History, page 174:
Three swordes, called queen's swordes, with their three scabbardes to the swordes belonging; three chappes of silver gilt for the said silver swords[.]
cloak?
1894, Walter Scott, The Waverley Novels, page 288:
De Vaux , who was in attendance, then removed the chappe (capa) or long riding-cloak which Richard wore, and he […]
1893, James Augustus Henry Murray, Henry Bradley, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, page 274:
Some buckles are made with a metal chape, e . g . a stirrup-buckle; an ordinary strap-buckle is made without, and attached by a[…]
schappe silk:
1912, Silk, page 29:
according to the quality of the goods , chappe silk , for instance , requiring a much smaller quantity of bleaching agent than tussah silk . The acidity of the hydrogen peroxide is neutralized with sodium silicate to produce the[…]
1901, Julius Zipser, Textile Raw Materials and Their Conversion Into Yarns: (the Study of the Raw Materials and the Technology of the Spinning Process) a Text-book for Textile, Trade and Higher Technical Schools, as Also for Self-instruction; Based Upon the Ordinary Syllabus and Curriculum of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Weaving Schools, page 473:
Except in England , where the cotton reel is taken as the standard , chappe silk is reeled on a machine measuring 1'25 m . ( 49 in . ) , and the hank has four lays of 100 threads , the total length being therefore 500 metres ( 5468 yds[…]
1903, Telephony, page 420:
In fact , so extensive known as “ chappe ” silk which retains all the original gum . has this practice become of late years that the weighting or Under the microscope chappe silk may be known from the loading of silk may claim[…]
