caddis

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Etymology 1

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Unknown. See dialect forms caddew, caddy, cad-bait.

Noun

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caddis (countable and uncountable, plural caddises)

  1. The larva of a caddis fly. They generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with debris.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle French cadis, from Old French cadaz, from Old Occitan, from Old Catalan cadirs, cadins.

Noun

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caddis (countable and uncountable, plural caddises)

  1. A rough woolen cloth; caddice.
  2. A kind of worsted lace or ribbon.
    • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 293:
      Hee hath Ribbons of all the colours i’ th Rainebow; Points, more then all the Lawyers in Bohemia, can learnedly handle, though they come to him by th’ grosse: Inckles, Caddysses, Cambrickes, Lawnes:

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