Meaning of watchet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A harbour town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST0743).
2. A light blue colour.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. Cloth or clothes of this colour.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“I was going by his Highneſs's order to my Lady Iſabellas chamber: She lies in the watchet'-coloured chamber, on the right-hand, one pair of ſtairs.”

“On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle, inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews.”

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

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