Middle English (denoting material for making clothes): shortening of Old French estoffe ‘material, furniture’, estoffer ‘equip, furnish’, from Greek stuphein ‘draw together’
中世英語(服を作る材料を表す):古フランス語のestoffe「材料、家具」、estoffer「装備、調度」の短縮形、ギリシャ語のstuphein「一緒に描く」に由来。