Middle English Dictionary Entry
chamelet n.
Entry Info
| Forms | chamelet n. Also chamlet, chamelot, shamlet, samelet. |
| Etymology | OF chamelot |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Some kind of costly fabric from the Near East; camlet.
Associated quotations
- (1388) Invent.Westm.in Archaeol.52229 : De Frontellis..de nigro chamellet.
- (1415) Invent.Agincourt in Archaeol.7092 : ij puluinaribus de viridi Chamelet.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)20/21 : Before þe sowdan sall na straunger com þat he ne sall be cledd in clathe of gold or tars, or in chamelet [Man.(3): samelet], a maner of clething whilk þe Sarzenes vsez.
- (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57360 : iij stykkes..of blak chamelet, prise the styk iiij s.
- (1466) Rec.St.Stephen in Archaeol.5038 : j vestment of blewe chamlet enbraudet with whyte Roses, with stole, fanon, aube, amys, and alle þat longe for a preste.
- (1471) Paston (Gairdner)5.121 : I pray ȝow to bye me iij ȝerddis of porpyl schamlet, price the ȝerd iiij s.
- (1472) Will York in Sur.Soc.45204 : A dublett of grene chamlett.
- (1472-75) RParl.6.154b : Marchauntes..use to bryng into this Reame Clothes of Gold..Damaskes, Satens, Sarcenettes, Tarterons, Chamelettes..from the parties beyond the See.
- a1500 Lydg.LOL (Adv 19.3.1)p.114 : Wer ther of gold any clothes fownde..Or was ther arras abowt hur hede bownd..Or was ther any chamlyt or satyn.
- c1500(?a1437) ?Jas.I KQ (SeldArch B.24)st.157 : For chamelot the camel full of hare, With mony an othir beste divers.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: The list of variant spellings in the form section is incomplete and needs revision to accord with standards of later volumes of the MED. Provisional revised form section: Also chamellet, chamlet, chamlit, chamelot, samelet, schamlet; pl. chamlettes.--notes per MLL