sarsenet

English

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Etymology

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

Noun

sarsenet (countable and uncountable, plural sarsenets)

  1. 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.[1][2]
    • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book II, chapter 15:
      [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?

References
  1. Oxford English Dictionary sarsenet, sarcenet
  2. sarsnet , www.mijnwoordenboek.nl

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