Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fine soft silk cloth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sarsenet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
sarsenet . - noun Thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye. — Shakespeare.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Violet timorously asked, What about the bale of silk sarcenet?
The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010
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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.
The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009
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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.
The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009
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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.
The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009
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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.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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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.”
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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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.”
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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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.”
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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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.”
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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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.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
reesetee commented on the word sarcenet
Also see sarsenet.
August 4, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word sarcenet
"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