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adjective
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



... and he was filled with wonder at the sanctity of her maidenhood. Thenceforth meditating upon the Annunciation he should always clothe Pauline in a robe of white samite and set her in his mind's eye for that other maid of Jewry, even as painters found holy maids in Florence or Perugia for ...
— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie

... Jane will be Guinevere and Diana must be Lancelot. But first you must be the brothers and the father. We can't have the old dumb servitor because there isn't room for two in the flat when one is lying down. We must pall the barge all its length in blackest samite. That old black shawl of your mother's will be just the ...
— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... gathered about the Round Table, each knight in his own siege, suddenly there was heard a crash of thunder, so mighty that the hall trembled, and there flashed into the hall a sunbeam, brighter far than any that had ever before been seen; and then, draped all in white samite, there glided through the air what none might see, yet what all knew to be the Holy Grail. And all the air was filled with sweet odours, and on every one was shed a light in which he looked fairer and nobler than ever ...
— Heroes Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie



Words linked to "Samite" :   material, cloth, fabric



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