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Chamlet, Chamlot, n. Also: chamlett, -lete, -lat (chawmlat), -lott; chamblet(t, -lot; champlet(t, -lat. [ME. chamlett, -lyt (c 1400), chamblet, reduced f. chamelet Chamelet; cf. Camlet.] Camlet.(a) c 1450 Misc. Maitl. C. III. 196.
Item, of reid chamlat … for the Rud Altar Ib.
Item, of reid chawmlat … for the Holie Spiritis altar 1473 Treas. Acc. I. 14.
Chamlotis for his [the king's] persone Ib.
A gowne of chamlot Ib.
x elne … of blew chamlot of silk 1559 Maitland Ho. Seytoun 39.
Grein chamlot of silk 1562 Treas. Acc. XI. 151.
Thre elnis of turkie chamlot 1566 Treas. Acc. MS. 52.
vi elnis of reid chamlot 1566 Ib. 110.
Chamlot of silk to be ane wilicote 1592 Edinb. Test. XXIV. 213 b.
My frenche blak gowne lynnit with chamlot in the breistis 1597 Halyburton's Ledger p. cxiii.
Chamlat of silk the stik thairofattrib. 1581 Edinb. Test. X. 180.
Scho leuis hir cloik & chamlot goun of silk to Margarot Lander(b) 1494 Treas. Acc. I. 232.
To thare doublatis, ix ellis of chamlete 1495 Ib. 233.
viij ellis of chamlet, rede and quhite, to be ilkain of thame a liffray pe 1498 Halyb. 180.
A stek gren chamlet 1540 Maxwell Mem. I. 409.
Ane payr chemyrris of tanny chamlet 1546 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 236.
Ane dowblet of new blak chamlet 1551 Treas. Acc. X. 29.
vii elnis reid unwatterit chamlett to be ane patycoit to my Lady 1554 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 201.
Silkis, worsattis, … chamlettis, Holland clayth, serge [etc.] 1569 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 672/1.
Tua coitis, the ane of reid, and the vther of reid chamlet 1579 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 115.
Ane govne of fyne blak chamlett of silk of cierge 1591 Fam. Rose 281.
Ane blak chamlett of silk goun 1604 Tailor's Acc. Bk. 31.
vj quarteris of lynnyng to lyne the sleivis of the chamlet of silk goun 1637 Edinb. Test. LVIII. 87 b.
Ane stand of blak chamlet of silkattrib. 1609 Wemyss of Bogie MSS.
Twa pair of bed hanges and chamlett coverings with pandis of velvit(c) c 1555 Crail Ch. Reg. 64.
Two caippis of blew chamblet 1591 Edinb. Test. XXIII. 263.
Thrie cloikis, tua thairof blak and ane vther of chamblot of silk 1618 Ib. L. 163 b.
Tua steikis blak Frenche chamblit of silk 1637 Ib. LVIII. 72 b.
Ane steik of cours chamblett(d) 1543 Treas. Acc. VIII. 175.
Twa gownis of variant champlet to twa of the gentill wemen 1547 Ib. IX. 68.
Ane steik of unwatterit champlat 1548 Ib. 159.
xj elnis champlat to be … ane goun 1573 Reg. Privy C. II. 270.
Ane gowne of blak champlott silk begareit with velvot