Camlet.
（Fabric.) A cloak-stuff formerly made of camel's hair, alone or mixed with silk; since made of wool and silk or wool and flax. It was a fashionable cloak stuff in the days of our fathers and their fathers. It was rigid from close weaving, and nearly waterproof. It went out when indiarubber fabrics came in. [435]
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Camel's-hair cloth is used for tent coverings in Algiers by the Kabyles and Berbers; in China for carpets; in Turkey for soldiers' coverlets; in Circassia for dreadnaught cloaks. Fine or coarse, its uses are great and various. Marco Polo refers to this manufacture at the city of Kalaka, in the province of Tangut, in the domain of the great Genghis Khan.
“After dinner, I put on my new camelott suit; the best I ever wore in my life, the suit costing me above £ 24” (Pepys's Diary, 1665). This was a rich silk.
“This night my new camelott riding coate to my colored cloth suit came home” (Pepys, 1662). This latter was possibly not “my gray cloth suit and faced white coate, made out of one of my wife's petty-coates.”
