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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Unknown. See dialect forms caddew, caddy, cad-bait.
Noun
caddis (countable and uncountable, plural caddises)
- The larva of a caddis fly. They generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with debris.
Etymology 2
From Middle French cadis, from Old French cadaz, from Old Occitan, from Old Catalan cadirs, cadins.
Noun
caddis (countable and uncountable, plural caddises)
- A rough woolen cloth; caddice.
- 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , 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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