Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Archaic The red color of a coarse woolen cloth sometimes used for undergarments.
- noun Obsolete A coarse woolen cloth for undergarments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large, clumsy horse.
- noun A kind of woolen cloth, of a red color: red linsey-woolsey: probably same as
stamin . - noun Hence The color of stammel: a red inferior in brilliancy to scarlet.
- Of or pertaining to stammel or its hue; red; made of stammel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A kind of woolen cloth formerly in use. It seems to have been often of a red color.
- noun A red dye, used in England in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- adjective Of the color of stammel; having a red color, thought inferior to scarlet.
- noun Prov. Eng. A large, clumsy horse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A woolen cloth used in medieval times to make undergarments.
- noun A bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
- adjective Of a bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a coarse woolen cloth formerly used for undergarments and usually dyed bright red
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was a pageant of colour, in the midst of which the woman on trial, in her careful toilette, consisting of a black stammel gown, a cypress chaperon or black crêpe hood in the French fashion, relieved by touches of white in the cuffs and ruff of cobweb lawn, struck a funereal note.
She Stands Accused 1935
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Another stern moralist reproved the colonists for writing to England "for cut work coifes, for deep stammel dyes," to be sent to them in America.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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At anchoring, we saluted the king with nine guns, and the general sent Mr Femell ashore handsomely attended in the pinnace, with a fine crimson awning, to present the king a fair gilt cup of ten ounces weight, a sword-blade, and three yards of _stammel_ [red] broad-cloth.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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The 30th, some other merchants of Miaco came to look at our commodities, who offered twelve tayes the fathom for our best _stammel_, or red cloth; but they went away without making any bargain.
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[Banjarmassen] one of the towns of this island, is the chief trade for these articles; and at this place the following commodities are in principal request: Coromandel cloths of all kinds, China silks, damasks, taffetas, velvets of all colours but black, stammel broad-cloths, and Spanish dollars.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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I presented him in return with two vests of stammel cloth, two firelocks, two bottles of brandy, and a knife.
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Mr Salbank and I went ashore, accompanied by two linguists and an attendant, carrying as a present for the governor, six yards of stammel broad cloth, six yards of green, a fowling-piece and a looking-glass.
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They laid aside two pieces of broad cloth, one black and the other _stammel_, the best they could find, for which they offered seven _tayes_ the yard.
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According to his opinion, the colours most saleable in his country are, _stammel_ and other reds, yellows, and other light, gay, and pleasing colours, such as those already in most request at Surat.
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In the middle of every band there were three horses very richly caparisoned, their saddles being covered by costly furs, or velvet, or stammel broad-cloths.
jgould commented on the word stammel
A handful of stammel of cloth or of horse
Is to give up the scarlet and racer of course.
June 17, 2010