Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Camelot"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Camelot \Came"lot\, n.
See {Camelet}. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly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}.]
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. )
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Camelot
n : (Arthurian legend) the capital of King Arthur's kingdom;
according to the legend, truth and goodness and beauty
reigned there [syn: {Camelot}]
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