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

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

She was lined with glowing, woven carpets, sarcenet quilts, and lengths of white silks and cyprus.

From The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Katharine Tynan

Well, I must be away—I’ve to go to Cranbrook of an errand for Mother; she lacks a sarcenet coif.

From All's Well Alice's Victory by M. Lewin

A "cross-cloth" of green sarcenet, with the Assumption of Our Lady in gold.

From Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by George Worley

A player's garmentof green, lined with red tukeand with Roman lettersstitched upon it, of blue andred sarcenet.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various