stammel

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of stammel¹

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

Example Sentences

Stammel, stam′el, n. a kind of woollen cloth, dull red in colour: red colour.—adj. made of stammel, or like it in colour.

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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.

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Wilt have a pair of shoes or a head-lace or a fine stammel waistband or what thou wilt?'

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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.

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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.

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