camlet

• “Egmont was more lenient to the foul practices which prevailed there, and took almost a childish pleasure in dining at the table of the Duchess, dressed, as were many of the younger nobles, in short camlet doublet with the wheat-sheaf buttons.”

  The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 09: 1564-65

• “It was called "camlet," because made originally of camel's hair.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

• “Deborah wrote of the episode to a friend, including in her letter descriptions of the clothing she wore, including a scarlet cloak made of camlet, a fabric of Asian origin, originally made of silk and camel's hair.”

  History of American Women

• “I mounted putting on my camlet cloak for the air was yet a little cool.”

  History of American Women

• “He wore a kind of paletôt of light camlet cloth, with voluminous lapels and deep cuffs of lavender watered silk; very baggy trousers, with lavender stripes down the seams; very shiny boots and quite as glossy a hat; his attire being completed by tightly-fitting gloves, of the hue known in Paris as beurre frais — that is to say, light yellow.”

  Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef

• “Arthur, thus thrown into the shade, felt as Mr. Pepys afterwards did when he tore his camlet cloak — the damage was not great, but it troubled him.”

  Anne of Geierstein

• “A skirt, or upper-petticoat of camlet, like those worn by country ladies of moderate rank when on horseback, with such a riding-mask as they frequently use on journeys to preserve their eyes and complexion from the sun and dust, and sometimes, it is suspected, to enable then to play off a little coquetry.”

  Redgauntlet

• “His dress was not different from what he then wore, excepting that he had a loose riding-coat of camlet, under which he carried an efficient cut-and-thrust sword, instead of his walking rapier, and also a pair of pistols.”

  Redgauntlet

• “Allah, this camlet in which she is wrapped is ample for her.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Replied he, O Kings of the Age, the strangest thing that happened to me was that one day, two-and-twenty years ago, I snatched a girl who belonged to the Holy City; she was gifted with beauty and comeliness, despite that she was but a servant and was clad in threadbare clothes, with a piece of camlet-cloth on her head.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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