caddis

• IPA^(key): /ˈkædɪs/

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

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.

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

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:

• “caddis”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.