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watchets

watchets is the plural of watchet.

Meaning of watchet

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...
  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

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Questions about watchets

What is watchets the plural of?
Watchets is the plural of watchet.

Words near watchets in the dictionary

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

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