Definition of Sarcenet. Meaning of Sarcenet. Synonyms of Sarcenet

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Definition of Sarcenet

Sarcenet
Sarcenet Sarce"net, n. [OF. sarcenet; cf. LL. saracenicum cloth made by Saracens. See Saracen.] A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc. [Written also sarsenet.] Thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye. --Shak.

Meaning of Sarcenet from wikipedia

- an article on "sarcenet", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "sarcenet" You can also: Search for Sarcenet in Wikipedia to...
- wardrobe of clothes, and her crimson state bed curtains made of Italian sarcenet were embroidered with red Lancastrian roses. Clothes were also made for...
- ahead of them, dressed in white velvet and white sarcenet, and all their servants in white sarcenet doublets and hose, in the Burgundian fashion. To joust...
- including satin for a gown, velvet to border and the gown, and sarcenet silk for its lining. Sarcenet was a fine translucent silk fabric. She was to receive similar...
- needles. The "clout" was a cloth to which needles were pinned. A scarf of sarcenet, (a fine translucent silk fabric). A velvet hat 2 cauls of gold, silver...
- Baptist Hicks sold watchet (blue) velvet for a valence and watchet taffeta sarcenet for curtains to the Earl of Northumberland in 1586, from his London shop...
- calicos. There were also canopies, and course diapertowels, quilts of course sarcenet and of calico, ****s like those of Turkey; whereunto are to be added...
- in 1510. in November 1510 Margaret Ashley supplied coloured ribbons and sarcenet silk fabric in several colours for tippets worn by Mary Tudor, then known...
- Sarcenettes and such like" in the eastern provinces and areas adjoining Kongo. Sarcenet was a fine silk, but, unlike that made in Europe, the type made in "this...
- wearing a frock of yellow velvet, cut and pulled out with white tinselled sarcenet. The English commander, Lord Hertford described this battle as a half-hour...