Obs. Also cames, camwysse. Apparently a corrupt form of CANVAS; ‘a kind of gauze for samplers’ (Jamieson).
1540. Sc. Ld. Treas. Acc., in Pitcairn, Crim. Trials, I. 301. For cammes to stuff the orpheis of þe samin. Ibid. (1541), 309. For xij boltis of cammes, to be salis.
1555. Ch. Acc. Leverton, Linc., in Archæol., XLI. 360. For iiij yardes of camwysse for the hye awlter.
1578. Inventories, 215 (Jam.). A lang pece of cammes, sewit with the armes of Scotland.
