a name given to the Calvinists of the Cevennes, who took up arms in their own defence in 1688, after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. The origin of the name is given under CAMISADE.

CAMELET, or CAMLET, a stuff made sometimes of wool, sometimes of silk, and 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 true Oriental camel is made of the hair of a sort of goat frequent about Angora, and which constitutes the riches of that city. Camelts are now made in Europe. Writers of the middle age mention stuffs of camel's hair, under the denominations of camuletum and camelitum, whence probably the term; but these are represented as coarse and rough, and seem to have been chiefly used among the monks by way of mortification, as the hair shirt of later times.