An alternative plural spelling of calamanco, referring to multiple pieces of the glossy striped woolen fabric.
An alternate pluralization of calamanco using a Spanish-influenced ending, suggesting the word may have Spanish connections or that English speakers experimented with different plural forms based on their assumptions about the word's origin.
Different spellings of the same word's plural reveal that before standardized dictionaries, people wrote English phonetically and based plurals on what they guessed about where the word came from—it's like watching language democracy in action!
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