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watchet, n. and a. Obs. or arch.|ˈwɒtʃɪt|
Forms: [? 2 waschet] 4 waget(t, vachet, 4–7 wachet(t, 5 waycett, 6 wattchett, watchit, -eth, watchshide, wattshode, wetshode, 6–7 watched, watchett, 7 watcht, wetched, -et, 6– watchet.
[App. a. OF. (north-eastern) wachet, occurring a.d. 1420 (une heuke..foree de wachet, a cloak lined with ‘watchet’; it is not clear whether this means a particular fabric or a colour); an earlier instance, spelt waschet, occurs in quot. 1198 below; the use of the OF. word in an Anglo-Latin context at that date does not prove that it had already been adopted into English. It is possible that waschet, wachet may be a dim. of the word which is found once (spelt wasce) in a Douay document of 1262; Godefr. explains this as ‘sorte d'étoffe’, but the interpretation is not certain from the context. The Central OF. gasche, recorded once (1448), for some kind of appendage or ornament of a shoe, would correspond formally, but if Godefr. is right in rendering it ‘buckle’ the connexion is out of the question.
It is tempting to compare mod. Walloon waiss royal blue (which Diez would connect with OF. guesde woad); a dim. formation on a word of this meaning might have been used to denote a lighter shade of the colour. But the phonological possibility of such a derivation of wachet is very doubtful.]
A. n.
1. A light blue colour; cloth or garments of this colour.
[1198–9Curia Regis Roll 8 B m. 2 (P.R.O.) Ei abstulit .I. scapelarium de Waschet.] c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 135 Yclad he was ful smal and proprely Al in a kirtel of a lyght waget [v.rr. wagett, vachet, wachet(t]. 1407Will A. Rymour (Somerset Ho.) Togam meam de Wachett. 1538Elyot Dict., Scutulatus, is a colour, I suppose a wachet [1548 watchet]. 1551–2Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6 §23 Clothe or Clothes..of anye other color or colors then..skarlett redd crymsen..asewer watchett [etc.]. 1588W. Lambarde Eiren. App. Yy v, Tres vlnas panni lanei, coloris veneti (vocati Anglice Watchet). 1591Lyly Endimion v. ii, Whose teeth shal be so pure a watchet, that they shall staine the truest Turkis. 1601Holland Pliny ix. xxxvi. I. 258 So sullen and melancholie a colour, enclining to a blew or watchet [L. color austerus in glauco]. 1610― Camden's Brit. (1637) 133 The Saxons there in watchet clad, we see [tr. Sidonius Apollinaris: Istic Saxona cærulum videmus]. 1616W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iii. 392 Here see we watchet deep'ned with a blewe. 1631Townshend Albions Triumph 17 A garment of watchet. 1865T. Taylor Ballads & Songs Brittany 13 What gown..were't best to wear,—My gown of grain, or of watchet fair?
¶ App. misunderstood. (Jaune garance = madder yellow.)
1530Palsgr. 287/1 Watchet colour, jaune garance.
2. A fly used by anglers; an artificial fly made to imitate this. Also watchet fly.
1799G. Smith Laboratory II. 302 Pale or sky-blue watchet. It is a small fly, and appears on the water on a cold day. Ibid. 303 Yellow-watchet. Body, water-rat's fur, [etc.]. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Watchet, the name of a fly among Craven anglers, because it is of a watchet colour, or pale blue. 1829Glover's Hist. Derby I. 177 Yellow watchet fly.
B. adj. Light blue, sky-blue.
1496Nottingham Rec. III. 296 A ȝarde of waycett carssey. 1503Priv. Purse Exp. Eliz. York (1830) 96, x payre of wachet hosyn. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. lv. 216 The flowers..are of a watcheth or pale blewe colour. 1589Hakluyt Voy. 282 The mariners being all apparelled in Watchet or skie coloured clothe. 1598Inventory in Greg Henslowe Papers (1907) 121 Item, j wattshode tafitie dublet for a boye. 1604Marston & Webster Malcontent iii. i. (2nd Q.) E 2 b, Sea-water greene sutes, ash-color cloakes, wetchet stockings. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 242 Who wonders at the Germans watchet eyes? [L. Caerula quis stupuit Germani lumina?]. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 12 She wore buskins of wetched Silk, deck'd with Silver lace. 1742Collins The Manners 68 Or him whom Seine's blue nymphs deplore In watchet weeds on Gallia's shore. 1887J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstr. (1892) 186 Watchet eyes As sweet as early summer skies! 1893J. Davidson Fleet St. Eclogues 37 Wood-violets of watchet hue.
b. prefixed to blue as a qualifying term.
1536Stories & Proph. Scripture F v, Betwene euery bell a pomegarnade of purpoure,..of russed reade, of wetshode blew and of vermillion. 1665Hooke Microgr. 49 And the rest of the line of a Watchet blew. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. I. iv. 127 Her hair was a light soft brown, her eyes a watchet blue.
†c. sometimes app. used to denote a green or greenish colour.
This meaning is uncertain exc. in quot. 1658.
a1613J. Dennys Secr. Angling ii. xxii. C 6 b, Marke what a line he hath,..Of Bucephall, or Bayards strongest hayre Twisted with greene or watched silke among. 1635Swan Spec. M. v. §2 (1643) 93 In stead of a blew, [comets are sometimes] of a watchet or greenish colour. a1658Cleveland Poems (1659) 161 Tethys in a Gown Of sea-green watchet.
d. Comb., as watchet-coloured, watchet-hued adjs.
1609Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 183 Four yards of watchet coloured ribin. 1764H. Walpole Otranto v, She lies in the watchet-coloured chamber. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxx, A watchet-coloured silken mantle. 1895J. Davidson Fleet St. Eclogues Ser. ii. 25 Convolvuluses..Pallid or watchet-hued. |