Meaning of samite | Babel Free

Definitions

A material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“[A] robe / Of samite without price, that more exprest / Than hid her, clung about her lissome limbs, / In colour like the satin-shining palm / On sallows in the windy gleams of March: [...]”

“And in the center of that lake there hath for some time been seen the appearance as of a women's arm--exceedingly beautiful and clad in white samite, and the hand of this arm holdeth a sword of such exceeding excellence and beauty that no eye hath ever beheld like.”

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