Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin or imitation satin, especially one made of cotton.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very slight, thin satin.
- noun A material made of cotton and woolen, so woven that the woolen forms the surface: so called because the smooth surface is thought to resemble that of satin. It is cheap and very durable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thin kind of satin.
- noun A kind of cloth made of cotton warp and woolen filling, used chiefly for trousers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
faux satin usually made ofsynthetic fiber or cotton.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fabric with a finish resembling satin but made partly or wholly from cotton or synthetic fiber
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Examples
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Sundays - a real satin - not a satinet or any of the shams.
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At the age of nineteen, with a freedom suit of satinet, and barely money enough to bring him home, he returned to Cleveland.
Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin
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Unable to recoup his business losses in Center Falls and losing even the satinet factory, Susan's father had looked about in Virginia and
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On a cold blustery March day in 1839, when she was nineteen, Susan moved with her family two miles down the Battenkill to the little settlement of Hardscrabble, later called Center Falls, where her father owned a satinet factory and grist mill, built in more prosperous times.
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(Mills) Canal, which conveyed water from the Pawtucket Canal to his satinet-mills, thus affording additional power.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 Various
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In his prosperous days Daniel Anthony had built a satinet factory and a grist-mill at Hardscrabble and, although these were mortgaged heavily, he hoped to weather the financial storm and through them to build up again his fallen fortunes.
The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01 Harper, Ida H 1899
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In his prosperous days Daniel Anthony had built a satinet factory and a grist-mill at Hardscrabble and, although these were mortgaged heavily, he hoped to weather the financial storm and through them to build up again his fallen fortunes.
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Ida Husted Harper 1891
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His trousers were of coarse satinet, and might have fitted him a season or two before, but now were far outgrown, reaching only half-way down from the tops of his cowhide boots.
From Canal Boy to President Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 1881
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His trousers were of coarse satinet, and might have fitted him a season or two before, but now were far outgrown, reaching only half-way down from the tops of his cowhide boots.
From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield Horatio Alger 1865
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Mother was hard at work, making me a new jacket of gray satinet, lined with black chintz.
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