sarcenet

American  

[sahrs-nit] / ˈsɑrs nɪt /

Or sarsenet,

noun

1. a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.

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sarcenet British  

/ ˈsɑːsnɪt /

noun

1. a fine soft silk fabric formerly from Italy and used for clothing, ribbons, etc

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Etymology

Origin of sarcenet

1425–75; late Middle English sarsenet < Anglo-French sarzinet, probably equivalent to sarzin- Saracen + -et -et

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

sarcenet

Such words as "blastoderm", "sindoc," "peris," "parasang," "sarcenet," "teazel," "nullah," "cantatrice," "barracan," "sistrum," writhed and hissed in her verses.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tester and ceiler also shining cloth of gold; the curtains of white sarcenet; as for his head-suit and pillows, they were of the Queen's own ordonnance.

From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson

Of the gentylman, that promysed the scoler of Oxforde a sarcenet typet—Sarcenet, at the period to which this story refers, was a material which only certain persons were allowed to wear.

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by William Carew Hazlitt

In one I find a slip of thick blue silk cloth, of a texture like sarcenet, beneath which is written, 'The above is a piece of the Prince's garter.'

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson

Another garment, panedwith yellow, green, red, andblue sarcenet, and lined with old red buckram.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

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