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† ˈcamaca Obs.
Also camaka, cammaka, -aca, camoca, cammoca, -oka.
[a. OF. camocas (kamoukas in Froissart) ‘silk stuff approaching satin’ (Godef.), or med.L. camoca, camucum, med.Gr. καµουχᾶ; also in Sp. camocan, camucan, acc. to Dozy, ad. Arab. kamkhā or kimkhā, which Devic thinks originally a Chinese word, and ultimately identical with OF. canque.]
A kind of fine fabric, probably of silk.
1375Will of Edw. Ld. Despencer (trans. Rock) My great bed of blue camaka, with griffins, also another bed of camaka striped with white and black. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xvii. 299 A cote of cammoka oþer of clene scarlett. a1400Cov. Myst. 163 In kyrtyl of cammaka kynge am I cladde. c1475Sqr. lowe Degre 835 Your curtaines of camaca, all in folde. c1485E.E. Misc. (1855) 4 The dosers alle of camaca.
[1717Blount Law Dict., Camoca, a Garment made of Silk, or something better. 1876Rock Text. Fabr. iv. 30.] |