camlet

• camlett, chamblet, chamblot, chamlet, chamlot, chamelot, chamlet, chamlett, camlot, camlott (archaic to obsolete)

From Middle English chamelet, chamelot, chamlot via Old French chamelot, suffixed +‎ -ot from Arabic خَمْلَة (ḵamla, “velvet”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæm.lɪt/

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• Rhymes: -æmlɪt

camlet (countable and uncountable, plural camlets)

1. A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.
   • 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 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.

   • 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:

     She was richly clad in a bodice of gold-coloured camlet and a skirt of gray silk trimmed with gold and silver lace.

camlet (comparative more camlet, superlative most camlet)

1. Made of camlet.
   • 1660 July 11 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “July 1st, 1660 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 190:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

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