mockado

[muh-kah-doh]

noun

plural

mockadoes 

1. a fabric simulating velvet, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mockado¹

1535–45; earlier mockeado < Italian moccaiardo (by association with mock ). See mohair

Example Sentences

Sept. 10th, my dream of being naked, and my skyn all overwrowght with work like some kinde of tuft mockado, with crosses blew and red; and on my left arme, abowt the arme, in a wreath, this word I red— sine me nihil potestis facere: and another the same night of Mr. Secretary Walsingham, Mr. Candish, and myself.

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Each woman hath with her also, according to her abilitie, all her familie trimmed vp in white mockado: the better sort and wealthier women goe in litters of Cedar artificially wrought and richly dressed.

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What mockado is this, to such a poor soul as I!

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