Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Archaic The red color of a coarse woolen cloth sometimes used for undergarments.
- n. Obsolete A coarse woolen cloth for undergarments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A woolen cloth used in medieval times to make undergarments.
- n. A bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
- adj. Of a bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of the color of stammel; having a red color, thought inferior to scarlet.
- n. A large, clumsy horse.
- n. A kind of woolen cloth formerly in use. It seems to have been often of a red color.
- n. A red dye, used in England in the 15th and 16th centuries.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of woolen cloth, of a red color: red linsey-woolsey: probably same as stamin.
- n. Hence The color of stammel: a red inferior in brilliancy to scarlet.
- Of or pertaining to stammel or its hue; red; made of stammel.
- n. A large, clumsy horse.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a coarse woolen cloth formerly used for undergarments and usually dyed bright red
Etymologies
Examples
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It was a pageant of colour, in the midst of which the woman on trial, in her careful toilette, consisting of a black stammel gown, a cypress chaperon or black crêpe hood in the French fashion, relieved by touches of white in the cuffs and ruff of cobweb lawn, struck a funereal note.
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Another stern moralist reproved the colonists for writing to England "for cut work coifes, for deep stammel dyes," to be sent to them in America.
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According to his opinion, the colours most saleable in his country are, _stammel_ and other reds, yellows, and other light, gay, and pleasing colours, such as those already in most request at Surat.
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Mr Salbank and I went ashore, accompanied by two linguists and an attendant, carrying as a present for the governor, six yards of stammel broad cloth, six yards of green, a fowling-piece and a looking-glass.
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The 30th, some other merchants of Miaco came to look at our commodities, who offered twelve tayes the fathom for our best _stammel_, or red cloth; but they went away without making any bargain.
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They laid aside two pieces of broad cloth, one black and the other _stammel_, the best they could find, for which they offered seven _tayes_ the yard.
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In the middle of every band there were three horses very richly caparisoned, their saddles being covered by costly furs, or velvet, or stammel broad-cloths.
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I presented him in return with two vests of stammel cloth, two firelocks, two bottles of brandy, and a knife.
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At anchoring, we saluted the king with nine guns, and the general sent Mr Femell ashore handsomely attended in the pinnace, with a fine crimson awning, to present the king a fair gilt cup of ten ounces weight, a sword-blade, and three yards of _stammel_ [red] broad-cloth.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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[Banjarmassen] one of the towns of this island, is the chief trade for these articles; and at this place the following commodities are in principal request: Coromandel cloths of all kinds, China silks, damasks, taffetas, velvets of all colours but black, stammel broad-cloths, and Spanish dollars.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
jgould commented on the word stammel
A handful of stammel of cloth or of horse
Is to give up the scarlet and racer of course.
June 17, 2010