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Definition of Stammel
1. Noun. A coarse woolen cloth formerly used for undergarments and usually dyed bright red.
Definition of Stammel
1. n. A large, clumsy horse.
2. n. A kind of woolen cloth formerly in use. It seems to have been often of a red color.
3. a. Of the color of stammel; having a red color, thought inferior to scarlet.
Definition of Stammel
1. Noun. A woolen cloth used in medieval times to make undergarments. ¹
2. Noun. A bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth. ¹
3. Adjective. Of a bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stammel
1. a red color [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stammel
Literary usage of Stammel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"A worsted cloth of a course kind, manufactured in Norfolk in the twelfth year of
Hen. VII. stammel. Mr. Collier, in his reprint of " Friar Bacon and Friar ..."
2. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the by Frederick William Fairholt (1846)
"A worsted cloth of a coarse kind, manufactured in Norfolk in the sixteenth century.
stammel. Mr. Collier, in his reprint of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, ..."
3. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"stammel is sometimes used for a red colour, and sometimes for a species of cloth:
in this instance it means the latter, as the colour of the stammel is ..."
4. A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of by James Robinson Planché (1876)
"Certainly in this instance, as in those above quoted; but where is an instance
of stammel being used to signify any colour ? ..."
5. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the by Frederick William Fairholt (1846)
"Mr. Collier quotes from Beaumont and Fletcher's /.;/.'.•'' French Lawyer, " I'll
not quarrel with the gentleman For wearing stammel ..."
6. The Minor Elizabethan Drama by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1913)
"1 stammel was a kind of woollen doth. The words " red" and " stammel" were, I
believe, seldom used together, the former being the understood colour of the ..."
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