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▪ I. stammel1 Now only arch. or Hist.|ˈstæməl|
Also 6 stamele, -ill, ? erron. stanel(l, 6–7 stamel(l, stammell.
[Corresponds to F. estamel (1611 in Godef.), mod. dial. estamelle, either f. estame + -el, -elle, or f. estamine stamin, by substitution of suffix; cf. the OF. synonyms estamet, estamot, formed with other dim. suffixes. The Eng. word may be a. F. estamel(le (though recorded earlier), but it may be an independent alteration of stamin.]
1. A coarse woollen cloth, or linsey-woolsey, usually dyed red; an under-garment of this material, worn by ascetics. Cf. stamin.
1530Palsgr. 275/1 Stamell fyne worstede, estamine. 1534in Lett. Suppress. Monasteries (Camden) 16 Another that had betyn hym zelfe so with roddes that his stamell was blody. 1542Boorde Dyetary viii. (1870) 249 In sommer use to were a skarlet petycote made of stamele or lynsye⁓wolsye. 1552Invent. Churches Surrey 58 Item one cope of red stamill. 1606Chapman Mons. D'Olive ii. i, Changeable creatures..now in Satten, To morrow next in Stammell. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xii. (1626) 239 Like a bull..Whose dreadfull hornes the stammell, which prouokes His furie, tosse with still deluded strokes. 1623Cockeram Dict., iii, Cutchoneale,..wherewith Stammell is died. 1665R. Brathwait Comm. Chaucer 10 His Table with Stammel, or some other Carpet, [was] neatly covered.
fig.1631J. Taylor (Water P.) Sudden Turn Fortune's Wheel Advt. to Rdr., Knowinge the cause to be good, I adventured to piece a scarlet roabe with my coarse stammell; and though my lines are farr short of the other in elocution and ornate, still yet mine are more in number.
2. More fully stammel colour: the shade of red in which the cloth was commonly dyed. Also attrib. or as adj. (Sometimes vaguely = ‘red’.)
In the 17th c. often spoken of as cheaper than ‘scarlet’.
1567Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 273 Two peticotts thone of skerlet th' other of stamell xxxvs. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. iv. 151 The floures be..sometimes Carnation, Stamell, or Scarlet colour. a1585in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914) XXIX. 518 Stanell Redes and lustie gallantes. Ibid. 519 You must have light skye collors.., fyne Redes and Stanells. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 612 The Violet's purple, the sweet Rose's stammell. 1598Florio, Scarlatino, the colour we call stammell red. 1633B. Jonson King's Entert. Welbeck (1640) 276 Red-hood the first that doth appeare In Stamel. Acc. Scarlet is too deare. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. xii. 296 As if the scarlet robes of their honour had a stain of the stamell die in them. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes 70 The body of a mixt red, partly Crimson, partly Stammell. 1658W. Sanderson Graphice 84 With breaks of Scarlet, or Stammell-colour. 1674Milton Hist. Mosc. iv. Wks. 1851 VIII. 493 They were spread under-foot with Cloth of Gold..the Bridges with Scarlet and Stammel-cloth. 1725Sloane Jamaica II. 54 Anoto-Berries dye a very fine Stammel colour. 1890æ. Prince Palomide 40 Comes a knight On lusty stammel steed. 1893Athenæum 18 Nov. 706/1 Miss Gertrude Kingston, whose stammel tresses..are unbecoming and out of harmony with her face.
3. attrib. ‘Of stammel’, as stammel-weaver; ‘made of stammel’, as stammel breeches, stammel cloak, stammel petticoat (but here often referring to the colour: see 2).
1591Horsey Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) 197 The ambassador..with his 30 men livored in stamell cloakes. 1596Unton Invent. (1841) 3 Five stamell cotes. 1601Marston Jack Drums Entert. ii. C 2, Mistresse Snuffe..hath newly put on her stamell petticoat. 1612R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke 2143 That fellow in the stammell hose is one of them. 1615G. Sandys Trav. i. 48 The skirts of their coates..are gathered within long stammell broges. 1620Fletcher Fr. Lawyer i. i, But I'll not quarrell with this Gentleman For wearing stammell Breeches. 1634Earl of Cork Diary in Lismore Papers Ser. i. (1886) IV. 11 One whole peece..of very choice stamell cloath. 1820Scott Abbot xix, She has a stammel waistcoat.
▪ II. † ˈstammel2 slang. Obs.
[In the first quot. perh. a use of prec. (with sense ‘wearer of a stammel petticoat’); but cf. strammel.]
(See quots.)
1597Deloney Gentle Craft ii. Wks. (1912) 150 Out vpon her foule stammell (quoth she) he that takes her to his wife shall be sure of flesh enough. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Stammel, a brawny, lusty, strapping Wench. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Stammel or Stammel-Jade, a great flouncing Mare; an over-grown bouncing Wench. 1735Dyche & Pardon Dict., Stammel or Strammel, a large flouncing Mare, or overgrown robust Wench. |