sarsenet

English

From Anglo-Norman sarzinett, from Old French sarrasinet, diminutive of sarrazin (“Saracen”).

sarsenet (countable and uncountable, plural sarsenets)

A very fine and soft silk ribbon woven in a plain weave with a fine warp and higher density weft, now chiefly used for linings.
- c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature K, recto:
  No, vvhy art thou then exaſperate, thou idle, / immaterial ſkeine of ſleiue ſilke; thou greene ſacenet flap for a ſore eye, thou toſſell of a prodigalls purſe— […]
- 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XV, in Middlemarch […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II:
  [H]ave not these structures some common basis from which they have all started, as your sarsnet, gauze, net, satin and velvet from the raw cocoon?

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