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† ˈscamato Obs.
Forms: 6 scamato, 7 scammatie, scamoty, scamandee.
[app. repr. some mod.Gr. corruption of med.Gr. ἑξάµιτον samite.
Cf. mod.Chios dialect σκαµάγκι and σκαµάνδρα, σκάµανδρον ‘spun cotton’ (Paspates Χιακόν Γλωσσάριον, 1888; in a quot. there given the latter is associated with δίµιτον: cf. quots. below).]
Some kind of textile fabric.
1570Campion in Hakluyt's Voy. (1599) II. i. 115 For we do vse to buy..of their Scamato and Dimite, that the poore people make in that towne [sc. Chio]. 1625Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1812 The downie or woolly substance..of which the Ilanders doe make a certaine stuffe called Dimitie, and another called Scammatie. 1660Act 12 Chas. II, c. 4 Scamoty the peece containing seven yardes & ½..vij s. vj d. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 99 In most of these Villages are made the Stuffs, which they call Dimite, and Scamandee. |