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▪ I. † plumbet Obs.
Also 6 plumet, plommett, plomet, -it.
[app. a deriv. of F. plomb lead, plumb n., perh. in reference to its colour, and thus practically a parallel form of plunket, of which it appears to be a synonym. Note the alteration of plumbet to plumket in the later edition of Udall.]
A woollen fabric; app. the same as plunket. Also attrib.
1533Udall Floures Lat. Spekynge 199 b, Cæsius,..and glaucus, is blew or grey, as the sky is when it hath litle spleckes of grey clowdes in a faire day, as it were a plumbet [ed. 1560 plumket] colour. 1590Lanc. & Chesh. Wills III. 68 My best cloke my jirkine and breeches of stript plumet. 1661Peacham Compl. Gent. (ed. 3) 156 Plumbet colour, i.e. like little Speks of gray clouds in a fair day. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. II. v. ix. 180/1 The sorts of this new Drapery [time of Q. Eliz.] were various. They were Bays,..Rash or Stannet,..Serche,..Plomets, Carells, Fustians of Naples. Ibid. 181/1 Plomits, wrought with Silk, or otherwise. 1882Beck Draper's Dict., Plommetts, pommetts, stuffs mentioned in 1592 as being in pieces of fourteen yards each, of four pounds weight, and valued at {pstlg}1.
▪ II. plumbet
var. plumbate; obs. f. plummet. |