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Watches vs Watchet - What's the difference?

watches | watchet |

As nouns the difference between watches and watchet

is that watches is plural of lang=en while watchet is a light blue color.

As a verb watches

is third-person singular of watch.

As an adjective watchet is

of the color watchet (as of eyes, clothes, etc.).

watches

English

Verb

(head)
  • (watch)

    • Noun

    (head)
  • The leaves of Saraceia flava .
    • (Webster 1913)

    watchet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A light blue color.
  • (obsolete) Cloth or clothes of this color.
  • * (c. 1343-1400):
    • Y-clad he was ful smal and proprely, al in a kirtel of a light wachet — ful faire and thikke been the poyntes set.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iv:
    • They him disarm'd, and spredding on the ground / Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round, / They softly wipt away the gelly blood [...].

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Of the color watchet (as of eyes, clothes, etc.).
  • * (1631-1700):
    • Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes?