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Samite  adj.  A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold. "In silken samite she was light arrayed."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Samite" Quotes from Famous Books



... await what the lady should do, and Nicostratus having, a few days after, made, as he oftentimes used to do, a great dinner to certain gentlemen, Madam Lydia, whenas the tables were cleared away, came forth of her chamber, clad in green samite and richly bedecked, and entered the saloon where the guests were. There, in the sight of Pyrrhus and of all the rest, she went up to the perch, whereon was the hawk that Nicostratus held so dear, and cast ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio

... unfading flowers, of undying youthfulness. Only for an hour or so, far in the deep night does the distant breath of the Frost King come to haunt the land, and then when the sun flings away his white samite coverlid it is summer again, with the earth ...
— Dwellers in the Hills • Melville Davisson Post



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