Middle English Dictionary Entry
camaca n.
Entry Info
| Forms | camaca n. Also kameka, cam(m)oka. |
| Etymology | OF & ML |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A rich fabric; ?a kind of brocaded silk.
Associated quotations
- (1338) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100375 : Item j pannus novus de serico viridis coloris de Kameka.
- (1385) Doc.in Dugdale Monasticon 61363 : Unum vestimentum album de camoca.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)17.299 : Charite is..al-so glad of a goune of a grey russet As of a cote of cammoka [vrr. camaca, cammaka] oþer of clene scarlett.
- (1413) Will in Bdf.HRS 218 : I wolle and by qweye to þt same chirche þe vestement of blak Camoka.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)24/20 : Ȝif he be clothed in cloth of gold or of tartarie or of camaka [Eg: chamelet; F camaka].
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)153/1 : Clothes..of camokas [Eg: cammaca; F camochaz].
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)154/82 : In kyrtyl of cammaka, kynge am I cladde.
- a1475 Lovely lordynges (Brog 2.1)p.4 : The dosers alle of camaca..The quysschyns alle of velvet.