Obs. Also camaka, cammaka, -aca, camoca, cammoca, -oka. [a. OF. camocas (kamoukas in Froissart) ‘silk stuff approaching satin’ (Godef.), or med.L. camoca, camucum, med.Gr. καμουχᾶ; also in Sp. camocan, camucan, acc. to Dozy, ad. Arab. kamkhā or kimkhā, which Devic thinks originally a Chinese word, and ultimately identical with OF. canque.] A kind of fine fabric, probably of silk.

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  1375.  Will of Edw. La Despencer (trans. Rock). My great bed of blue camaka, with griffins, also another bed of camaka striped with white and black.

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1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. XVII. 299. A cote of cammoka oþer of clene scarlett.

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a. 1400.  Cov. Myst., 163. In kyrtyl of cammaka kynge am I cladde.

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c. 1475.  Sqr. lowe Degre, 835. Your curtaines of camaca, all in folde.

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c. 1485.  E. E. Misc. (1855), 4. The dosers alle of camaca.

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  [1717.  Blount, Law Dict., Camoca, a Garment made of Silk, or something better.

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1876.  Rock, Text. Fabr., iv. 30.]

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