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English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman sarzinett, from Old French sarrasinet, diminutive of sarrazin (“Saracen”).
Noun
sarsenet (countable and uncountable, plural sarsenets)
- A very fine and soft silk ribbon woven in a plain weave with a fine warp and higher density weft, now chiefly used for linings.
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— […]
1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XV, in Middlemarch , volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II:[H]ave not these structures some common basis from which they have all started, as your sarsnet, gauze, net, satin and velvet from the raw cocoon?
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