Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAM'LET, n. [from camel, sometimes written Camelot.]

A stuff originally made of camel's hair. It is now made, sometimes of wool, sometimes of silk, sometimes of hair, especially that of goats, with wool or silk. In some, the warp is silk and wool twisted together and the woof is hair. The pure Oriental camlet is made solely from the hair of a sort of goat, about Angora. Camlets are now made in Europe. – Encyc.