_Calamanco_, _Callimancoe_. A woolen stuff of Flanders, glossy on the surface, and woven with a satin twill and checkered in the warp, so that the checks are seen on one side only; much used in the eighteenth century. Calamanco breeches (1605), diamond buttoned callamanco hose (1639). His waistcoat of striped calamanco (1693). A gay calamanco waistcoat (1710). A tawny yellow jerkin turned up with red calamanco (1760). _Calico._ Originally a general name for all kinds of cotton cloth imported from Callicut, India, and from the East. Painted calicuts they call calmendar (1678). Pepys bought calico for naval flags (1666). Dressed in white cotton or calico (1740). _Cambletteens._ Boston News-Letter, Dec. 18, 1760. _Camlet._ Originally made of silk and camel's hair, hence the name, but later of silk and wool. Red chamlett (1413). His camlet breeches (1625). Rich gold or silver chamlets (1634). Watering the grograms and chambletts (1644). Pepy owned a camelott riding coat (1662). Camlet was also made with a wavy or watered surface. Water Chamolet of an azure color (1624). A watered camlet gown (1719). _Camleteen._ An imitation camlet. Made of fine worsted (1730). _Cantaloon._ A woolen stuff manufactured in the eighteenth century in the west of England. Trusses of cantaloons or serges (1711). Cantaloons from Bristol (1748). _Canvas._ (1) Strong or coarse unbleached cotton cloth made of hemp or flax, formerly used for clothing. A coverlet lined with canvas (1537). (2) The thin canvas that serves women for a ground unto their cushions or purse work (1611). Working canvas for cushions (1753). St. Peter's Canvas. _Carpet._ Originally a thick fabric, commonly of wool, used to cover tables, beds, etc. Lay carpets about the bed (1513). A carpet of green cloth for a little folding table (1527). A table wanting a carpet (1642). A green carpet for the communion table (1702). _Carsey_, see _Kersey_. _Castor._ Generally a hat, either of beaver fur or resembling it. _Challis._ A fine silk and worsted fabric, very pliable and without gloss, used for dresses, introduced at Norwich, England, about 1632. _Checks._ A fabric woven or printed in a pattern forming small squares, i.e., check Kersey. Hungarian checks. _Cheercoones._ Boston Gazette, June 23, 1729. _Cheese Cloth._ _Chello._ A fabric imported from India in the eighteenth century. _Cheney_, _Cheyney_. A worsted or woolen stuff. My red bed of Phillipp and Cheyney (1650). Colchester cheanyes (1668). _Cherry derries._ Boston News-Letter, Dec. 18, 1760. _Coifing Stuff._ 3 yards, 3/4. Essex Co. (Mass.) Probate (1661). _Copper plate._ A closely woven cotton fabric on which patterns, landscapes, pictorial representations have been printed from engraved copper plates; much in fashion during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. _Dakaple_, see _Dornick_. _Darnacle_, see _Dornick_. _Darnex_, see _Dornick_. _Dianetts._ Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757.