Caddice
or Caddis. Worsted galloon, crewel. (Welsh, cadas,
brocade; cadach is a kerchief; Irish, cadan.)
“He hath ribands of all the colours i' the rainbow; ... caddisses,
cambrics, lawns.” —Shakespeare: Winter's Tale, iv. 3.
Caddice-garter.
A servant, a man of mean rank. When garters were worn in sight, the
gentry used very expensive ones, but the baser sort wore worsted
galloon ones. Prince Henry calls Poins a “caddice-garter.” (1 Henry
IV., ii. 4.)
Dost hear,
My honest caddis-garter?
Glapthorne: Wit in a Constable, 1639.
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