Extensions to pet and proper names, such as the ie in laddie or lassie, or the y in names like Robby or Donny, surfaced in Scotland around 1400 and became popularized as endearments by the poems of Robert Bums (1759-1796).
This collection of shirts runs the gamut of color. The definition of gamut is the entire range or extent of something. An example of gamut is a clothing collection that includes every color of the rainbow. gamut. gamut.
The term colour gamut refers to the range of colours a device can reproduce, the larger or wider the gamut the more rich saturated colours available. As colour gamuts become smaller it is generally these rich saturated colours that are the first to suffer, a phenomena technically referred to as clipping.