cameline
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Searchable Lemmata: camelin (AF), camelin (ME), camelinus (L), cameline (MdE).
Alternate Forms: camaletus, cameli, camelota, camelotus, camely, camlin, chamelin, cameline.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Textile;
luxury fabric thought to be made from wool and silk or other fibres (originally thought, probably falsely, to contain camel's hair; or used of fabric resembling camel's hair), in various colours. Geniune camel hair fabric certainly existed on the Continent, and though not documented before the 13th century, was probably in use before that; Ditchfield, P. (2007), pp . 346-7. Used as a count noun and as a mass noun.
Earlier cameline came from (or was associated with) the Mediterranian region and may have been of varying price and quality (cf. DMLBS, Cl 26 below: 'kamelino ultramarino'; also, two 'Camelin’ de Tripl' [Tripoli?]' appear in the wardrobe accounts of Bogo de Clare, each costing 16s. 2d., '‘The Wardrobe and household accounts of Bogo de Clare, A.D. 1284-6’ [Giuseppi, M.S. (1918), 9 & 30]. Stella M. Newton notes that by the early 1350s 'camelin ... was the cloth most generally worn by members of the French royal family' [Newton, S. M. (1980), 28].(ante 1250 - ante 1900 ?)
1. mittatis nobis pannos subscriptos ... viz. ... iiij burnetas nigras, duas camelinas de medio colore
Accounts, Legal.
[DMLBS Cl (261) 1244]
2. faciant habere robas integras de bono griso kamelino ultramarino (cf. Cl. 93: j robam ad opus regis de camelino de Caumbrey
Accounts, Legal.
[DMLBS Cl (26) 1257]
Sex: N/A Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, AF camelin from Central French chamelin. Adjectival form ultimately from Classical Latin (camelinus = of a camel, camel-coloured).
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