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- noun Plural form of
camlet .
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Examples
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The term "suklat" was used in England in the XIXc for certain blankets or camlets from China.
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Belgium, exceeds them all in the beauty and quality of its camlets; those of England are the next.
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European camlets are made of a mixture of woollen thread and hair.
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From Ormuz, which is in Persia, they bring excellent horses, and very fine carpets; many larins, [65] each one a trifle smaller than one of our reals; many clusters of dates; camlets, [66] and many agras; and benecianos, [67] each of which is worth about one of our escudos of eleven reals.
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Had I been in ony o 'your rotten French camlets now, or your drab-de-berries, it would hae screeded like an auld rag wi' sic a weight as mine.
Rob Roy 1887
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"Call me an Anabaptist, if she hath not in her coffers two velvet gowns, and a satin, and a kersey, and three camlets -- to say nought of velvet kirtles and other habiliments!"
Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Overyssels, and other rare linens, mingled with French and Italian lawns of the finest texture; Turkish camlets, satins of China and Luca, plain and wrought, and many other expensive and highly-taxed articles.
The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840
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"Are the camlets arrived from the country?" inquired the merchant.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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His friezes were the handsomest; his stuffs and camlets were not to be sampled in the market, or even throughout the world; insomuch that the courtly dames of Venice, and the cumbrous vrows of Amsterdam and the
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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Had I been in ony o 'your rotten French camlets now, or your drab-de-berries, it would hae screeded like an auld rag wi' sic a weight as mine.
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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