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stammel
/ ˈstæməl /
noun
- a coarse woollen cloth in former use for undergarments, etc, and usually dyed red
- the bright red colour of this cloth
Word History and Origins
Origin of stammel1
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.
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.
Wilt have a pair of shoes or a head-lace or a fine stammel waistband or what thou wilt?'
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.
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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