different between camlet vs samlet

English

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (?amla, “velvet”), via Old French chamelot to Middle English chamelet.

Noun

camlet (countable and uncountable, plural camlets)

1. A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.
2. A garment made from such a fabric.
   • July 1, 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys

     This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it.

   • 1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter 4

     With this announcement he hurried away to the outer door of the Blue Dragon, and almost immediately returned with a companion shorter than himself, who was wrapped in an old blue camlet cloak with a lining of faded scarlet.

   • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Refugees, Chapter 3

     She was richly clad in a bodice of gold-coloured camlet and a skirt of gray silk trimmed with gold and silver lace.

Translations

Anagrams

• Mactel

English

Etymology

Contraction of salmon +? -let.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?saml?t/

Noun

samlet (plural samlets)

1. A young salmon.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 193:

     Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet, gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length.

Anagrams

• lamest, malest, metals

Danish

Verb

samlet

1. past participle of samle
2. (as an adjective) overall, total, whole
3. (as an adjective) joint
4. (as an adjective) assembled
5. (adverbial) taken together, in the aggregate
6. (adverbial) jointly
7. (adverbial) in a body

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

samlet

1. simple past and past participle of samle

Alternative forms

• samla