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I think so? I will check my notes--but again I think it is only incidentally (i.e., not common parlance there)

Maybe? I've only run across it incidentally so I'm not sure how systematized the label was.

I think this is what is sometimes called guinea cloth?

Kathleen Brown did a wonderful examination of this case in her book Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs (1996) if you haven't seen that yet!