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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A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly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 1.6 [wn]:
Camelot
n : (Arthurian legends) the capital of King Arthur's kingdom;
according to the legend, truth and goodness and beauty
reigned there [syn: {Camelot}]
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