Brewer's: Camlet

is not connected with the word camel; it is a fine cloth made of goats' hair, called Turkish yarn, and is from the Arabic word camlat, which Littré says is so called from seil el camel (the Angora goat).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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