† ˈplunket, n.1 and a. Obs.
Forms: 4 plunkett, 4–7 plonket, 5 -ete, -eut, -ett, plounkette, 5–6 ploncket, 5–8 plunket, (6 plumket, pluncket).
[ME. plonket, plunket, app. derived from OF. plunkié (1254), plonquié lead-coloured, lead-grey, also a kind of grey cloth (pa. pple. of plonquier to cover with lead:—late L. *plumbicāre, f. plumbum lead: see plunge v.).
The ending -et may be the earlier form of -é; but cf. other names of coloured fabrics, as blanket, bluet, burnet, russet, watchet. See also blunket (app. an alteration of this, perh. associated with blanket); also plumbet.]
A. n. A woollen fabric of varying texture, app. of a grey or light blue colour. Cf. blunket n.
| 1375–6 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 582 Pro xij uln. de plunkett. 1377–8 Ibid. 586, xiij uln. de Plonket empt. pro tunicis, pro pagettis xiij s. 1466 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 493 My master delyverd..xviij. yerdes of fyne plonket..to dye into fyne morrey engreyned. 1483 Act 1 Rich. III, c. 8 §4 That this Acte..extende not..to the makynge..of eny clothe called Vervise, otherwise called Plounkettes Turkyns or Celestrines, with broade Lists. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 22 Sodainly the Mount opened, and out came sixe ladies all in Crimosin satin and plunket, enbroudered with Golde and perle. 1616 Bullokar Eng. Expos., Plonkets, a kind of wollen cloth. 1721 C. King Brit. Merch. II. 96 What is become of our noble Manufacture of Plunkets, Violets, and Blues, formerly made in Suffolk? 1876 J. R. Planché Cycl. Costume I. 402. |
B. adj. Of a greyish blue colour; light blue. Cf. blunket a.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 406/1 Plunket (K. P. coloure), jacinctus. 1465–6 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 329, xxiij. narow clothes called statutes, of the..color of red viij., and of the colour of plonkeut xv. 1496 Bk. St. Albans, Fishing (1883) 10 Lete woode your heer in an woodefatte a lyght plunket colour. 1543 Grafton Coutn. Harding 596 In two or thre places the saied sleues were cut, and fastened together againe with a plunket ryband. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 50 The Duke of Vaudosme and his bende in clothe of golde, and pluncket veluet. 1560 Plumket [see plumbet, quot. 1533]. |