Also 5 kamelyne, 5–6 camelyn(e, 6 camboline, 8 camlin, 9 camaline. [a. OF. camelin, ad. med.L. camēlīnum, f. camēlīnus: see CAMELINE a.]
orig. A kind of stuff made (or supposed to be made) of camel’s hair: cf. CAMLET. Also the trade name of a modern fabric.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 7367. And dame Abstinence … Toke of a robe of kamelyne, And gan hir gracche [? graithe] as a bygynne.
a. 1450. Acts of Christ, MS. Addit. 11307, f. 97 (Halliw.). The cloth was ryche and ryȝt fyn, The chaumpe it was of red camelyn.
c. 1450. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 569. Camelinus, camelyn.
1886. Ripon Chron., 4 Sept., 2/6. (Advt.) We can suit every taste in Cameline Prints.
b. A garment made of this material.
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. 261. The Tallipoies go very strangely apparelled with one camboline or thinne cloth next to their body of a browne colour.
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., I. i. 15. A Gown … called a Camlin; it is made of Camels Hair, or of their Sheeps Wooll.
1837. Lardner, Steam Commun. w. India, 114. Their dress consists of a camaline, bound round the waist by a leathern girdle.
