Satin

Definitions

1. A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).
   countable, uncountable
2. Gin (the drink).
   countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

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Examples

“Ibn Batuta informs us that a rich silk texture made here was called Zaitûniya; and there can be little doubt⟳ that this is the real origin of our word Satin,—Zettani in mediæval Italian, Aceytuni in Spanish.”

“'This poor gal was robbed, barely left a stitch, that and the drink⟳... mind⟳, I likes a drop of satin – wot you'd call⟳ gin – myself. I'll say⟳ nothing against it. She ended thrown out of an upstairs winder.'”

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