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A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. [Sometimes written camelot and camblet.]

An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the have of a church, or in a window.

A style of interweaving giving to fabrics a channeled or fluted effect; also, a fabric woven so as to have this effect; a rep.

A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.

A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverle…

A gingham woven in plain colors with linen finish.

A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.

A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.

Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments. [Obs.]

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

Knit or woven together; close; firm. [Obs.] The coats, without, are context and callous. Derham.

Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven. Dr. John Smith (1666).

Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed. [R.] Carlyle.

A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures. On which a tissue counterpane was cast. Drayton.

surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.

Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like. "A bed of ancient damask." W. Irving.

Woven like damask. -- n.

Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.

A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.