▪ I. cameline, n.1
(ˈkæməlɪn, ˈkæmlɪn)
Also 5 kamelyne, 5–6 camelyn(e, 6 camboline, 8 camlin, 9 camaline.
[a. OF. camelin, ad. med.L. camēlīnum, f. camēlīnus: see cameline a.]
a. orig. A kind of stuff made (or supposed to be made) of camel's hair: cf. camlet. Also the trade name of a modern fabric.
| c 1400 Rom. Rose 7367 And dame Abstinence..Toke of a robe of kamelyne, And gan hir gracche [? graithe] as a bygynne. a 1450 Acts of Christ, MS. Addit. 11307, f. 97 (Halliw.) The cloth was ryche and ryȝt fyn, The chaumpe it was of red camelyn. c 1450 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 569 Camelinus, camelyn. 1886 Ripon Chron. 4 Sept. 2/6 (Advt.) We can suit every taste in Cameline Prints. |
b. A garment made of this material.
| 1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. 261 The Tallipoies go very strangely apparelled with one camboline or thinne cloth next to their body of a browne colour. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. i. 15 A Gown..called a Camlin; it is made of Camels Hair, or of their Sheeps Wooll. 1837 Lardner Steam Commun. w. India 114 Their dress consists of a camaline, bound round the waist by a leathern girdle. |
▪ II. cameline, n.2
(ˈkæməlaɪn)
[a. F. cameline (in mod.L. camelīna). Littré says ‘the sauce is doubtless named from the plant’. (It has been conjectured to be a corrupt form of chamælīnum, corresp. to Gr. *χαµαίλινον ‘dwarf flax’.)]
1. A genus of cruciferous plants; spec. the ‘Gold of pleasure’ (Camelina sativa). Also attrib.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens iv. xxxv. 494 The oyle of the seede of Cameline or Myagrum..doth cleare and polish the skinne from all roughnesse. 1598 Florio, Miagro, the herbe Cameline. c 1865 in Circ. Sc. I. 105/2 Cameline or Dodder oil is extracted from the seeds of the Camelina sativa. |
2. ‘A certaine daintie Italian sauce’ (Cotgr.).
| c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 30 Þis sawce fyne, Þat men calles camelyne. |
▪ III. cameline, a.
(ˈkæməlaɪn)
[ad. L. camēlīnus f. camēlus camel n.: see -ine1.]
Belonging to a camel, or to the camel tribe.
| 1865 W. G. Palsgrave Arabia I. i. 39 The loss of his old master and cameline companions gives him no regret. |