samite

American  

[sam-ahyt, sey-mahyt] / ˈsæm aɪt, ˈseɪ maɪt /

noun

1. a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.

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samite British  

/ ˈsæmaɪt, ˈseɪ- /

noun

1. a heavy fabric of silk, often woven with gold or silver threads, used in the Middle Ages for clothing

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Etymology

Origin of samite

1300–50; Middle English samit < Old French < Medieval Latin examitium, samitium < Greek hexámiton, neuter of hexámitos having six threads. See hexa-, mitosis

Example Sentences

It concairned a hand and arm, in samite, with a bridle and a candle in its gripe.

From Literature

Textile experts at the Anglo-Saxon Laboratory in York, England, identified several samples as silk samite, a luxury fabric produced in weavers’ workshops in Byzantium, North Africa, or southern Spain.

From National Geographic

In his honor Daenerys had donned a Qartheen gown, a sheer confection of violet samite cut so as to leave her left breast bare.

From Literature

Her feet were bare, her golden hair artfully tousled, her robe a green-and-gold samite that caught the light of the candles and shimmered as she looked up.

From Literature

In The Last Tournament the street-ways are depicted as hung with white samite, and "children sat in white," and the dames and damsels were all "white-robed in honor of the stainless child."

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• fiber
• taffeta
• thread
• tulle