▪ I. † plumbet Obs.
Also 6 plumet, plommett, plomet, -it.
[app. a deriv. of F. plomb lead, plumb n., perh. in reference to its colour, and thus practically a parallel form of plunket, of which it appears to be a synonym. Note the alteration of plumbet to plumket in the later edition of Udall.]
A woollen fabric; app. the same as plunket. Also attrib.
| 1533 Udall Floures Lat. Spekynge 199 b, Cæsius,..and glaucus, is blew or grey, as the sky is when it hath litle spleckes of grey clowdes in a faire day, as it were a plumbet [ed. 1560 plumket] colour. 1590 Lanc. & Chesh. Wills III. 68 My best cloke my jirkine and breeches of stript plumet. 1661 Peacham Compl. Gent. (ed. 3) 156 Plumbet colour, i.e. like little Speks of gray clouds in a fair day. 1720 Strype Stow's Surv. II. v. ix. 180/1 The sorts of this new Drapery [time of Q. Eliz.] were various. They were Bays,..Rash or Stannet,..Serche,..Plomets, Carells, Fustians of Naples. Ibid. 181/1 Plomits, wrought with Silk, or otherwise. 1882 Beck Draper's Dict., Plommetts, pommetts, stuffs mentioned in 1592 as being in pieces of fourteen yards each, of four pounds weight, and valued at {pstlg}1. |
▪ II. plumbet
var. plumbate; obs. f. plummet.