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Definition of Camlet
1. Noun. A garment made of camlet fabric.
2. Noun. A fabric of Asian origin; originally made of silk and camel's hair.
Definition of Camlet
1. n. A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton.
Definition of Camlet
1. Noun. A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk. ¹
2. Noun. A garment made from such a fabric. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Camlet
1. a durable fabric [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Camlet
Literary usage of Camlet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Perhaps the same as barracan, explained by the dictionaries a coarse kind of camlet.
.... camlet ..."
2. Philip Musgrave, Or, Memoirs of a Church of England Missionary in the North by Joseph Abbott (1846)
"Old Friends—Building a House—A Fatal Accident—A Liberal Education— A Death-bed
Repentance—A Funeral—An Old camlet Cloak. ARRIVED at the village which had ..."
3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, John Smith (1867)
"This morning come home mv fine camlet 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. ..."
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