Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A light- or pale-blue color.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Pale or light blue.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A light blue color .
  • noun obsolete Cloth or clothes of this color.
  • adjective obsolete Of the color watchet (as of eyes, clothes, etc.).

Etymologies

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From Middle English wachet; compare French vaciet, whortleberry, Latin vaccīnium ("blueberry").

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  • an attention-getting pale blue color

    November 10, 2007

  • Sionnach, I was curious about the derivation and came up with this: Probably from F. vaciet bilberry, whortleberry; cf. L. vaccinium blueberry, whortleberry.

    So now I simply must have the word whortleberry, erect or no. :-)

    November 11, 2007

  • "...at ten minutes to the hour he stepped into his barge rigged to the nines, from the silver buckles on his shoes to the chelengk in his hat, his bargemen splendid in watchet blue and snowy duck."

    --Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 316

    February 19, 2008