camelot
/ˈkæm.əˌlɒt/US/ˈkæm.əˌlɑt/
camelot is the alternative form of camlet.
Meaning of camlet
Noun
camlet (countable and uncountable, plural camlets)
- A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.
- She wore a sort of jacket of bright red camlet, richly braided with gold and silver lace; a fringe of which also hung from her gray petticoat, which was short enough to show her feet and ankles, whose small size was rendered more remarkable by the peculiar-shaped boot.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 216–217
Proper noun capitalized: Camelot
Camelot
- A mythical location in England and the stronghold of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend.
- The administration and surrounding mystique of President John F. Kennedy.
- Of course you want to fund all these programs, and you want to fund all these activist campaigns. Of course you want that. The term “Camelot” was never used, but there was a Camelot feeling to it at the time that people must have felt in the early ’60s in the same way.2025 January 17, Ross Douthat, quoting Marc Andreessen, “How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Forms of camelot
| plural | camelots |
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Origin of camelot
First attested in Old French as Camaalot in Chrétien de Troyes' Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart. In the US politics sense a reference to the contemporary musical Camelot (1960), associated with the Kennedy era.
Words formed from camelot
Questions about camelot
- What does camelot mean?
- Camelot means a mythical location in England and the stronghold of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend.
- What is camelot the alternative form of?
- Camelot is the alternative form of camlet.
- What part of speech is camelot?
- Camelot is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce camelot?
- Camelot is pronounced /ˈkæm.əˌlɒt/ (UK).
Words near camelot in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: camelot (page history and authors); Camelot (page history and authors); camlet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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