watchet

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I was resolved to have you though I am forced to take a dozen watchet-blue mountebanks in the bargain. "

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  1. A light- or pale-blue color. Celestro, azure, watchet, or skie-colour. Celeste, heauen-lie, celestiall. Also skie-colour or azure and watchet. Florio. Yclad he was ful smal and proprely Al in a kirtel of a lyght waget. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, l. 135. [There are MS. variations vachet, wagett, and wachet, of which the last only is in print.] Their watchet mantles frindgd with silver rownd. Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 40. The greater shippes were towed downe with boates and oares, and the mariners, being all apparelled in watchet or skie coloured clothe, rowed a maine, and made way with diligence. Hakluyt's Voyages, quoted in R. Eden (First Books on [America, ed. Arber, p. xxxviii.). His habit is antique, the stuffe Watchet and siluer. Dekker, Londons Tempe.

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  1. Early modern English also watched; from Middle English wachet, waget, wagett, vachet; prob. from an Old French form ult. connected with woad.
 

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