Tapisserie.

Faire tapisscrie. To play gooseberry-picker, to be mere chaperon for the sake of “propriety.” “Se dit des personnes qui assertent à un bal ou à quelque autre grande réunion sans y prendre part.”

“You accepted out of pure kindness faire tapisserie; Mrs. Arbuthnot, you are too amiable.”—Mrs. Edwardes: A Girton Girl, chap. xxvi.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Tansy
Tantalise
Tantalos (Latin, Tantalus)
Tanthony (St. Anthony)
Tantum Ergo
Taou
Tap the Admiral
Tap the Till (To)
Tap-up Sunday
Tapis
Tapisserie
Tappit-hen (A)
Tapster
Tapu
Tarabolus or Tantrabolus
Tarakee
Tarantism
Tarantula
Tarentella or Tarantella
Tariff
Tarpaulins or Tars

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Gooseberry Picker (A)