Obs. rare. Also 5 kannette, 6 kenet(te. [prob. a. ONF. *canette, *kenette = OF. chenette (one example in Godef.), f. L. cānus hoary: cf. ONF. canu, kenu, F. chenu:—*cānūtus.] A kind of grey cloth.

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1480.  Caxton, Ovid’s Met., XIV. xii. 63 b/1. Wel semed he for age to tremble & had made his hed lyke as hit had been of kannette.

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1541.  Act 33 Hen. VIII., c. 3. A certayne kinde … of walshe clothes called whytes, russettes, and kenettes. [In Poulton kennets: hence in Blount, Phillips, etc.]

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  b.  Comb. † Kennet-colo(u)r a., grey-colored.

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1530.  Palsgr., 235/2. Kenet coloure, cendré.

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  [Kennet, Naut.; error for KEVEL (q.v.), in Kersey’s Phillips 1706, whence in Bailey, Chambers, Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Century Dict., etc.]

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