samite

And all the gear and furniture of this horse was of silver and of white samite embellished with silver.

With that, he unfastened the samite over-cloak he wore, and took from his neck a string of priceless pearls.

And on the strand he found a ship covered all with white samite, and he alighted, and betook him to Jesu Christ.

Such stuff, when of great thickness and value—so thick that six threads of silk or hemp were in the warf—was called ‘samite.’