Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fine soft silk cloth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See sarsenet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings
Etymologies
- Middle English sarsenet, from Anglo-Norman sarzinett, perhaps from Old French Saracin, Saracen, from Late Latin Saracēnus; see Saracen.
Examples
“Violet timorously asked, What about the bale of silk sarcenet?”
“The young woman was dressed in a lovely gown of white crepe spotted with white satin over a sarcenet slip, trimmed at the neck and sleeves with wreaths of black silk flowers.”
“Intense was the low murmur of admiration when a particularly small gentleman, in a dress coat, led on a particularly tall lady in a blue sarcenet pelisse and bonnet of the same, ornamented with large white feathers, and forthwith commenced a plaintive duet.”
“For them he devised elaborate new fancy-dress costumes, a “blue velvet mantle with a Garter on the left shoulder, lined with white sarcenet and scarlet hose with black velvet around the thighs.””
“He had made a little cuddy there inside his inner sarcenet, and down his plaited neck-cloth ran a sly companionway to it, so that his eyes might steal a visit to the joy that was over his heart and in it.”
“There is one certain exception however in this case, and that is, when you are so fortunate a fellow, as to have had your jerkin made of gum-taffeta, and the body-lining to it of a sarcenet, or thin persian.”
“She was wearing a high-waisted gown of blond net over daffodil-yellow sarcenet and looked as fresh and lovely as the springtime.”
One Night for Love
“I, "accoutred as I was," in motley attire, -- my homely little economies patent to admiring spectators: on either shoulder, budding wings composed of unequal parts of sarcenet-cambric and cotton-batting; and in my heart -- _parricide_ I had almost said, but it was rather the more filial sentiment of desire to operate for cataract upon my father's eyes.”
“Her connexion with the French court, it is to be supposed, suggested the appearance of "xii Frenchmen, whiche were belongyng to the Frenche ambassador," coming "fyrst" in her "company -- in coats of blewe velvet, with sleves of yelowe and blewe velvet, and their horses trapped with close trappers of blewe sarcenet, powdered with white crosses.”
“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.”
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chained_bear "Mrs Z was 'simply attired in a plain coloured gown made of a very few yards of sarcenet.'"
—Annabel Venning, Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present (London: Headline, 2005), 192 May 18, 2010
reesetee Also see sarsenet. Aug 4, 2009