camlet

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Noun

HYPHEN

cam=let

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun camlet has 2 senses

camlet(n = noun.artifact) - a garment made of camlet fabric;

is a kind of

garment

camlet(n = noun.artifact) - a fabric of Asian origin; originally made of silk and camel's hair;

CIDE DICTIONARY

camlet, n. [F. camelot (akin to Sp. camelote, chamelote, It. cambellbito, ciambellotto, LL. camelotum, camelinum, fr. Ar. khamlat camlet, fr. kaml pile, plush. The word was early confused with camel, camel's hair also being used in making it. Cf. Calamanco].

A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. [1913 Webster]

" They have been made plain and twilled, of single warp and weft, of double warp, and sometimes with double weft also, with thicker yarn." Beck (Draper's Dict. ) [1913 Webster]