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Camerage, Camrage, -reche, n. Also: cammerage, -aige (calmerage), camara(i)ge, -orage, cammarag(e, camarige; camrag, camrige; cammeroche. [Variant (with unexplained change of ending) of camerik Camrik. See also Cambreche.] Cambric.(a) 1530–1 Treas. Acc. V. 410.
viij … elnis camerage claith to be sarkis to the King 1536–7 Ib. VI. 298.
Deliverit … to be ane uther serk, iiij … elnis cammarage claith 1543 Ib. VIII. 239.
For thre elnis of fyne cammerage claith to be napkynnis to his grace 1564 Reg. Privy C. I. 310.
Thre stekis of camerage 1565 Prot. Bk. G. Grote 69.
[A] half ell … of cammarag 1566 Treas. Acc. MS. 72.
iiij elnis of cammerage 1566–7 Fleming Q. Mary 505.
Item, to be rufis to the kyngis sarkis, of camarage viij elle 1567 Melvill Corr. 7.
Ye sall nocht faill to send my madynis clais, … togithyr with the camaraige and lynyne clayth 1578 Inv. Wardrobe 232.
Ane quaiff of camorage with twa cornettis 1581 Acts III. 220/2.
The greit abuse … in the vse and wearing of layne, cameraige, freinȝeis [etc.] 1597 Bk. Rates 3 b.
Camerage the half stik, xx li.(b) 1546 Treas. Acc. IX. 24.
Tua elnis … camrage to be naipkynnis to his grace 1552 Treas. Acc. X. 141.
Send to Strabogy witht this dule goun vij elnis camrage clayth to be hir dule curchayes 1553 Ib. 172.
Foure elnis camrage claith, to be ane dule curche to my Ladye Gordoun 1596 Crim. Trials I. 386.
The thifteous steling … of ane cloik, … ane camrige owrla [etc.] Ib. 391.
xxj ruffis of camrige and laine 1602 Tailor's Acc. Bk. 29.
Twa camrag ouerlouris to ȝour maisterschip 1604 Ib. 31.
Ane camrage much to the nycht bonnett 1605 Glasgow Chart. I. dcxiii.
It sall not be lesum to ane sempill burges … to tap ony silk … , na laine nor camrage(c) 1550 Treas. Acc. IX. 453.
Deliverit to my Lady Gordoun to be nekkis and ruffis to his graces sarkis, half ane elne camreche claith 1558 Ib. X. 359.
To Iohnne Mowbray, merchand, for certane welvot dames and cammeroche bocht fra him a1585 Maitland Maitl. Q. ii. 14.
Off fynest camreche [are] thair fuk saillis Ib. 93.
Thair camreche courches ar als deir