Another variant spelling of the smooth silk fabric habutai or habutae.
An alternative romanization of Japanese 羽二重, reflecting different transliteration conventions used in English trade and textile documentation during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The multiple English spellings of this Japanese fabric (habutae, habutai, habutaye) show how words borrowed from non-Latin languages were spelled inconsistently before standardized romanization systems were adopted.
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