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Noun
sarcenet (countable and uncountable, plural sarcenets)
- Alternative spelling of sarsenet
c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. (First Quarto), London: G Eld for R Bonian and H Walley, , published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature K, recto:No, vvhy art thou then exaſperate, thou idle, / immaterial ſkeine of ſleiue ſilke; thou greene ſacenet flap for a ſore eye, thou toſſell of a prodigalls purſe— […]
1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, :There is one exception however in this case, and that is, when you are so fortunate a fellow, as to have had your jerkin made of a gum-taffeta, and the body-lining to it, of a sarcenet or thin persian.
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