English

Noun

watchet ‎(plural watchets)

1. (obsolete) A light blue color
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2. (obsolete) Cloth or clothes of this color.
   • Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400):

     Y-clad he was ful smal and proprely, al in a kirtel of a light wachet — ful faire and thikke been the poyntes set.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iv:

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

Adjective

watchet ‎(comparative more watchet, superlative most watchet)

1. (obsolete) Of the color watchet (as of eyes, clothes, etc.).
   • John Dryden (1631-1700):

     Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes?