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samite

/ˈsæmaɪt/

samite noun: a material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages.

Noun

samite (countable and uncountable, plural samites)

  1. A material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages.
    • [A] robe / Of samite without price, that more exprest / Than hid her, clung about her lissome limbs, / In colour like the satin-shining palm / On sallows in the windy gleams of March: [...]1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 104–105
    • And in the center of that lake there hath for some time been seen the appearance as of a women's arm--exceedingly beautiful and clad in white samite, and the hand of this arm holdeth a sword of such exceeding excellence and beauty that no eye hath ever beheld like.1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

Forms of samite

pluralsamites

Origin of samite

From Middle English samite, from Old French samit, from Medieval Latin samitum, examitum, from Byzantine Greek ἑξάμιτον (hexámiton), from ἕξ (héx, “six”) + μίτος (mítos, “thread”).

Questions about samite

What does samite mean?
Samite means a material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages.
What part of speech is samite?
Samite is a noun.
How do you pronounce samite?
Samite is pronounced /ˈsæmaɪt/.
What is the plural of samite?
The plural of samite is samites.

Words near samite in the dictionary

  1. SAMIs
  2. samisen
  3. samisens
  4. Samish
  5. Samita
  6. samite
  7. samites
  8. samiti
  9. samitis
  10. samixogrel
  11. Samiyah

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