sateen
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English
Pronunciation
Noun
sateen (countable and uncountable, plural sateens)
- A type of cotton cloth with a shiny surface and dull back, woven using the technique that, when applied to silk or nylon, results in cloth called satin.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 112:
- The elaboration of her sateen costume (somewhat dirty and torn now) showed that she was an optimate.
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Translations
a type of shiny cotton cloth
Further reading
- “sateen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Finnish
Noun
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