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Webster 1913 Edition
Camlet
Cam′let
,Noun.
[F.
camelot
(akin to Sp. camelote
, chamelote
, It. cambellbito
, ciambellotto
, LL. camelotum
, camelinum
, fr. Ar. khamlat
camlet, fr. kaml
pile, plush. The word was early confused with camel, camel’s hair also being used in making it. Cf. Calamanco
] A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton.
[Sometimes written
camelot
and camblet
.] ☞ They have been made plain and twilled, of single warp and weft, of double warp, and sometimes with double weft also, with thicker yarn.
Beck (Draper's Dict. )
Webster 1828 Edition
Camlet
CAMLET
,Noun.
Definition 2024
camlet
camlet
English
Noun
camlet (countable and uncountable, plural camlets)
- A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.
- A garment made from such a fabric.
- July 1, 1660 This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it. — Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys
- 1844 With this announcement he hurried away to the outer door of the Blue Dragon, and almost immediately returned with a companion shorter than himself, who was wrapped in an old blue camlet cloak with a lining of faded scarlet. — Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter 4
- 1893 She was richly clad in a bodice of gold-coloured camlet and a skirt of gray silk trimmed with gold and silver lace. — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Refugees, Chapter 3.
Translations
a fine fabric made from wool and silk
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a garment made from camlet
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