Definition of "camlet"
camlet
noun
countable and uncountable, plural camlets
A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.
Quotations
She wore a sort of jacket of bright red camlet, richly braided with gold and silver lace; a fringe of which also hung from her gray petticoat, which was short enough to show her feet and ankles, whose small size was rendered more remarkable by the peculiar-shaped boot.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), pages 216–217
adjective
comparative more camlet, superlative most camlet
Quotations
This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it.
1660 July 11 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “July 1st, 1660 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, page 190
With this announcement he hurried away to the outer door of the Blue 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.
1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter IV, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, page 36