Found 4 hits - Term: camelot, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
camelot \came"lot\, n.
see camelet. obs.
1913 webster
see also:
camelet
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
camelot \cam"elot\ ka^m"u^lo^t, prop. n.
1. the legendary site of king arthur's court and castle.
pjc
2. hence, any place or time thought of as having idyllic
peace, justice, and happiness.
pjc
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
camlet \cam"let\, n. f. camelot akin to sp. camelote,
chamelote, it. cambellbito, ciambellotto, ll. camelotum,
camelinum, fr. ar. khamlat camlet, fr. kaml pile, plush. the
word was early confused with camel, camel's hair also being
used in making it. cf. calamanco
a woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly
of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. sometimes
written camelot and camblet.
1913 webster
note: they have been made plain and twilled, of single warp
and weft, of double warp, and sometimes with double
weft also, with thicker yarn. --beck draper's dict.
1913 webster
see also:
calamanco camelot camblet
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
camelot
n : arthurian legend the capital of king arthur's kingdom;
according to the legend, truth and goodness and beauty
reigned there
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