stammel

British  

/ ˈstæməl /

noun

1. a coarse woollen cloth in former use for undergarments, etc, and usually dyed red

2. the bright red colour of this cloth

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Etymology

Origin of stammel

C16: from Old French estamin , from Latin stāmineus made of threads, from stāmen a thread; see _stamen

Example Sentences

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stammel

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.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

On the steps of Number Three, two pale little girls in stammel petticoats used to sit for hours over a grocer's shop of grit and waste paper and refined mud.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

But the wench in the stammel waistcoat is stopping too, Adam—by heaven, they are going to dance!

From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott

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.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

The governor of the town sent me a goat, and I sent him in return three yards of stammel cloth, one piece of blue calico, a stocked musket, a musket-barrel, and two sword blades.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr