stammel
English
Etymology
Old French estamel
Noun
stammel (usually uncountable, plural stammels)
- (historical) A woolen cloth (used in medieval times to make undergarments).
- 1564, William Bullein, A Dialogue Bothe Pleasaunte and Pietifull, London, p. 11,
- […] booted he was after Saincte Benettes guise, and a blacke Stamell robe, with a lothlie monsterous hoode hanging backward […]
- 1606, George Chapman, Monsieur D’Olive, London: William Holmes, Act II, Scene 1,
- Our great men
- Like to a Masse of clowds that now seeme like
- An Elephant, and straight wayes like an Oxe
- And then a Mouse, or like those changeable creatures
- That liue in the Burdello, now in Satten
- Tomorrow next in Stammell.
- 1671, Margaret Cavendish, Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life, London, “The Tale of a Traveller,” p. 525,
- […] the lusty Lasses, and merry Good-wives, who were drest in all their Bravery, in their Stammel Petticoats, and their gray Cloath-Wastcoats, or white wrought Wastcoats, with black Woolstead, and green Aprons;
- 1564, William Bullein, A Dialogue Bothe Pleasaunte and Pietifull, London, p. 11,
- A bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
- stammel:
- (UK, dialect) A large, clumsy horse.[1]
- (UK, dialect) A vigorous girl.[2]
Adjective
stammel (not comparable)
- Of a bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
- 1611, Josuah Sylvester (translator), Du Bartas his Deuine Weekes, London, “The Third Daie of the First Week,”
- The Violet’s purple, the sweet Rose’s stammell,
- 1611, Josuah Sylvester (translator), Du Bartas his Deuine Weekes, London, “The Third Daie of the First Week,”
See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
References
- Thomas Wright, Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1857, Volume 2, p. 905: “STAMMEL, […] A great clumsy horse.”
- B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, London: W. Hawes et al., 1699: “Stammel, a brawny, lusty, strapping Wench.”
German
Pronunciation
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Verb
stammel
- inflection of stammeln:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative