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Camlet vs Callet - What's the difference?

camlet | callet |

As nouns the difference between camlet and callet

is that camlet is a fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk while callet is a trull or prostitute.

As a verb callet is

(obsolete) to rail or scold.

camlet

English

Noun

  • A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.
  • A garment made from such a fabric.
    • July 1, 1660' ''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.'' — Samuel Pepys, ''
    1844' ''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.'' — Charles Dickens, ''Martin Chuzzlewit ,
    1893' ''She was richly clad in a bodice of gold-coloured '''camlet and a skirt of gray silk trimmed with gold and silver lace.'' — Arthur Conan Doyle, ''The Refugees , .

    callet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trull or prostitute.
  • A scold or gossip.

    • Quotations

    * 1603', , Act 4, Scene 2 *: He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink / Could not have laid such terms upon his callet .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To rail or scold.
    • (Brathwait)

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