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chamblet

chamblet is the obsolete form of camlet.

Meaning of camlet

Noun

camlet (countable and uncountable, plural camlets)

  1. 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

See all 2 meanings of camlet

Forms of chamblet

pluralchamblets

Questions about chamblet

What is chamblet the obsolete form of?
Chamblet is the obsolete form of camlet.

Words near chamblet in the dictionary

  1. Chambishi
  2. Chamblee
  3. Chamblees
  4. Chambless
  5. Chamblesses
  6. chamblet
  7. chamblets
  8. Chamblin
  9. Chamblins
  10. chambon
  11. chambons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chamblet (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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