caddis1, caddicel (kadis)

[Formerly cad das, caddes, ME. cad as (> AF. cadaz; mod. F. cadis, IMG:content-2892.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2893.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2894.png:[blocks in formation] The country dame girdeth hir selfe as straight in the wast with a course caddis , as the Madame of the court with a silke riband. Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 220. Cad di es , cambrics, lawns. Shak ., W. T., iv. 3. 5t. A kind of coarse woolen or worsted stuff. (a) The variegated stuff used by the Highlanders of Scotland. Johnson. (b) A coarse serge. Eight velvet pages, six footmen in cadis . Shirley, Witty Fair One, iii. 5.