That meant liquid embroidered metallics, satin lace-up skirts – and even a tweed bikini.
The gown by couturier Helen Rose is made of 25 yards of satin and took a fifteen-person team almost three months to fashion.
There were satin dresses, cascading trench coats, and an array of perfectly tailored trousers.
I still remember the feel and appeal of the satin edging on a cheap blue blanket that somehow came to me as a kid.
The pale blue lining of the brim of her satin hat perfectly matched the flowers on her jacket.
There were other and still other banners, in velvet or in satin, balanced at the end of gilded batons.
One's knee struck a sword, or one's foot touched a satin train, at every step.
But “time and patience,” says the Eastern proverb, “change the mulberry leaf to satin.”
He was a chestnut horse, with a coat that shone like satin, and not a white hair about him.
The front of the skirt and of the sleeves are elaborately trimmed with puffings of satin.
mid-14c., from Old French satin (14c.), perhaps from Arabic (atlas) zaytuni, literally "(satin) from Zaitun," a Chinese city, perhaps modern Quanzhou in Fukien province, southern China, a major port in the Middle Ages, with a resident community of European traders. The form of the word perhaps influenced in French by Latin seta "silk." OED finds the Arabic connection etymologically untenable and takes the French word straight from Latin. As an adjective from mid-15c.
