stammel

Old French estamel

stammel (usually uncountable, plural stammels)

1. (historical) A woolen cloth (used in medieval times to make undergarments).
   • 1564, William Bullein, A Dialogue Bothe Pleasaunte and Pietifull, London, p. 11,

     […] booted he was after Saincte Benettes guise, and a blacke Stamell robe, with a lothlie monsterous hoode hanging backward […]

   • 1606, George Chapman, Monsieur D’Olive, London: William Holmes, Act II, Scene 1,

     Our great men

     Like to a Masse of clowds that now seeme like

     An Elephant, and straight wayes like an Oxe

     And then a Mouse, or like those changeable creatures

     That liue in the Burdello, now in Satten

     Tomorrow next in Stammell.

   • 1671, Margaret Cavendish, Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life, London, “The Tale of a Traveller,” p. 525,

     […] the lusty Lasses, and merry Good-wives, who were drest in all their Bravery, in their Stammel Petticoats, and their gray Cloath-Wastcoats, or white wrought Wastcoats, with black Woolstead, and green Aprons;

2. A bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.

   stammel:  

3. (UK, dialect) A large, clumsy horse.[1]
4. (UK, dialect) A vigorous girl.[2]

stammel (not comparable)

1. Of a bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
   • 1611, Josuah Sylvester (translator), Du Bartas his Deuine Weekes, London, “The Third Daie of the First Week,”

     The Violet’s purple, the sweet Rose’s stammell,

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

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stammel

1. inflection of stammeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative