mockado

mockado
/meuh kah"doh/, n., pl. mockadoes.
a fabric simulating velvet, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
[1535-45; earlier mockeado < It moccaiardo (by assoc. with MOCK). See MOHAIR]

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