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sarsnet

sarsnet 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 sarsnet

pluralsarsnets

Questions about sarsnet

What is sarsnet the alternative spelling of?
Sarsnet is the alternative spelling of sarsenet.

Words near sarsnet in the dictionary

  1. Sarsfield
  2. Sarsfields
  3. Sarsi
  4. Sarsian
  5. sarsing
  6. sarsnet
  7. sarsnets
  8. sarsparilla
  9. sarsparillas
  10. sarsparilloside
  11. sart

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sarsnet (page history and authors); sarsenet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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