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Camʹlet

is not connected with the word camel; it is a fine cloth made of goatsʹ hair, called Turkish yarn, and is from the Arabic word camlat, which Littré says is so called from seil cl camel (the Angora goat).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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