camlet
/ˈkæm.lɪt/
camlet noun: a fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.
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
- She was richly clad in a bodice of gold-coloured camlet and a skirt of gray silk trimmed with gold and silver lace.1893, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Holding of the Door”, in The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents, volume I, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, [part I (In the Old World)], page 56
Adjective
camlet (comparative more camlet, superlative most camlet)
- Made of camlet.
- 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.1660 July 10 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “July 1st, 1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London...
- 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.1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter IV, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 36
Forms of camlet
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | camlets |
| alternative form | camlett |
| alternative form | chamblet |
| alternative form | chamblot |
| alternative form | chamlot |
| alternative form | chamelot |
| alternative form | chamlet |
| alternative form | chamlett |
| alternative form | camlot |
| alternative form | camlott |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more camlet |
| superlative | most camlet |
Origin of camlet
From Middle English chamelet, chamelot, chamlot via Old French chamelot, suffixed + -ot from Arabic خَمْلَة (ḵamla, “velvet”).
Words formed from camlet
Questions about camlet
- What does camlet mean?
- Camlet means a fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.
- What part of speech is camlet?
- Camlet can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce camlet?
- Camlet is pronounced /ˈkæm.lɪt/.
- What is the plural of camlet?
- The plural of camlet is camlets.
Words near camlet in the dictionary
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