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sarcenet

sarcenet is the alternative spelling of sarsenet.

Meaning of sarsenet

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.
    • 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— […]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...

Forms of sarcenet

pluralsarcenets

Questions about sarcenet

What is sarcenet the alternative spelling of?
Sarcenet is the alternative spelling of sarsenet.

Words near sarcenet in the dictionary

  1. sarcelé
  2. sarcelée
  3. Sarcen
  4. sarcenchymatous
  5. sarcenchyme
  6. sarcenet
  7. sarcenets
  8. Sarceno
  9. Sarcenos
  10. Sarchet
  11. Sarchets

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