It was called "camlet," because made originally of camel's hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference
His blue camlet cloak was a local antiquity, like the church-spire. From Wordnik.com. [The Body-Snatcher] Reference
I mounted putting on my camlet cloak for the air was yet a little cool. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
The Ant Fly -- dubbed with brown and red camlet mixed, wings, starling's feather, pale. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
He had long been the prisoner of this Louis XIV camlet, and he was now going to be executed. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The gowns were neatly made of drab camlet, the waists cut in long peaks, and the skirts hanging in ample folds. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Fry] Reference
The oriental camlet is made of the pure hair of a sort of goat, a native of Angora, a city of Natolia, in Turkey. From Wordnik.com. [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference
"Is it snowing?" inquired Pao-yü, upon noticing that she wore a cloak made of crimson camlet, buttoning in front. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
“Is it snowing?” inquired Pao-yü, upon noticing that she wore a cloak made of crimson camlet, buttoning in front. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng] Reference
The camlet Fly -- dubbed with dark brown shining camlet, ribbed over with green silk, wings, grey feather of a mallard. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
Also my fine camlet cloak with the gold buttons, which shall mightily vex my wife, poor wretch, unless it may be cleaned. From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
Brussels, the capital, is a fine city, and is celebrated for its manufactures, particularly for lace, camlet, and carpets. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Fair] Reference
On the night of the Chalmetta's terrible disaster, a man wrapped in a camlet cloak left the cottage, and approached the landing-place. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
He was dressed in the garb of a lawyer, with a gaban of tawny watered camlet over all and a montera cap of the same material, and mounted. From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
With a fresh blue camlet gown that matched her eyes, and a heart beating in her chest like a trip-hammer, she set out to stalk her victim. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Dragon, and almost immediately returned with a companion shorter than himself, who was wrapped in an old blue camlet cloak with a lining of faded scarlet. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
A camlet for best, I dare say, and duffel for every day. From Wordnik.com. [The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)] Reference
I set a new dowlas lining in my camlet but this last week. From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
( "That camlet!" said Lady Enville to herself, deeply vexed.). From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
I trust it'll wear better than mine, for if ever a camlet was no worth. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
Send also of the same camlet and trimming as may be enough to make cushions for the chamber chairs. From Wordnik.com. [Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them] Reference
Bryda exchanged her blue homespun skirt for a red camlet, a material then much used for women's dress. From Wordnik.com. [Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Bandon was once the seat of the stuff, camlet, and shag manufacture, but has in seven years declined above three-fourths. From Wordnik.com. [A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779] Reference
Gertrude had not changed her dress; perhaps she did not think it worth while to honour people who dressed in say and camlet. From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
His companion, who appeared a trifle the taller of the two, and equally robust, was wrapped in a cloak of dark green camlet. From Wordnik.com. [Windsor Castle] Reference
Betty accordingly brought a piece of black camlet, another of black bombazine, and a third of black satin, with various trimmings. From Wordnik.com. [The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)] Reference
Rachel, in the objectionable camlet, which had been declared too shabby to sweep the house in, stood near the door; while Clare and. From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
Justice on horseback, and then the said Signor Lodovico, clad in a black camlet vest with black hose and riding-boots, and a black cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497] Reference
This Person, I should have said, wore, winter and summer, a plain black shag gown untrimmed, with camlet netherstocks, and a smooth band. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference
"India counterpins" often were advertised, and cheney, harrataen, and camlet coverlets or counterpanes were made to match the bed-hangings. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
I reckoned I saw her t'other day, a-passing through the Strand, but she saw not me -- in a green perpetuance gown, and a black camlet hood. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
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