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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A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton.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.
A stuff originally made of camels hair. It is now made, sometimes of wool, sometimes of silk, sometimes of hair, especially that of goats, with wool or silk. In some, the warp is silk and wool twisted together, and the woof is hair. The pure oriental camlet is made solely from the hair of a sort of goat, about Angora. Camlets are now make in Europe.

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