watchet

watchet

See also: Watchet

English

Etymology

From Middle English wachet; compare French vaciet (“whortleberry”), Latin vaccīnium (“blueberry”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: wăch'ət, IPA^(key): /ˈwætʃɪt/

Noun

watchet (countable and uncountable, plural watchets)

1. (obsolete) A light blue color
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2. (obsolete) Cloth or clothes of this color.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Geoffrey Chaucer

     Y-clad he was ful smal and proprely, al in a kirtel of a light wachet — ful faire and thikke been the poyntes set.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iv:

     They him disarm'd, and spredding on the ground / Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round, / They softly wipt away the gelly blood […]

Adjective

watchet (comparative more watchet, superlative most watchet)

1. (obsolete) Of the color watchet (as of eyes, clothes, etc.).
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden:

     Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes?