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watchet

/ˈwæt͡ʃɪt/

watchet noun: a light blue colour.

Noun

watchet (countable and uncountable, plural watchets)

  1. (obsolete) A light blue colour.
    • I was going by his Highneſs's order to my Lady Iſabellas chamber: She lies in the watchet'-coloured chamber, on the right-hand, one pair of ſtairs.1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter V, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC...
    • On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle, inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews.1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC...
  2. (obsolete) Cloth or clothes of this colour.
    • They him disarm'd, and spredding on the ground / Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round, / They softly wipt away the gelly blood […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Adjective

watchet (comparative more watchet, superlative most watchet)

  1. (obsolete) Of the color watchet.
    • Firſt, the hethermoſt, in the changeable blew, and greene robe, is the commendably-faſhioned gallant, Evcosmos; […] The fourth, in watchet tinſell, is the kind, and truly benefique, Evcolos.1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby...
    • Shee, in a watchet weed, with manie a curious wave / Which as a princelie gift great Amphitrite gave1612, Michael Drayton, “The Fifth Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great...

Proper noun capitalized: Watchet

Watchet

  1. A harbour town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST0743).

Forms of watchet

Noun
pluralwatchets
Adjective
comparativemore watchet
superlativemost watchet

Origin of watchet

From Middle English wachet, waget; compare French vaciet (“whortleberry”), Latin vaccīnium (“blueberry”).

Words that rhyme with watchet

Questions about watchet

What does watchet mean?
Watchet means a light blue colour.
What part of speech is watchet?
Watchet can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce watchet?
Watchet is pronounced /ˈwæt͡ʃɪt/.
What is the plural of watchet?
The plural of watchet is watchets.

Words near watchet in the dictionary

  1. watches the feathers fly
  2. watches the fur fly
  3. watches the world burn
  4. watches the world go by
  5. watchest
  6. watchet
  7. watcheth
  8. watchets
  9. watcheye
  10. watcheyes
  11. watchface

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