Obs. Also watte. [a. F. watte, a. Du. watte = F. ouate: see WAD sb.1] = WAD sb.1 3.
1662. J. Davies, trans. Mandelslo’s Trav., II. 99. He presented him with a noble coverlet of Watte [Fr. 1659 watte].
1671. trans. Palafox’s Conq. China, xxxii. 566. Over this Shirt they wear a Vest … lined with Wat, or Cotton. Ibid., foot-n., Wat is the Down which covers the seeds of the Apocynum Syriacum, called in English Silk-grass.
