samite

Example Sentences

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He was standing with his arms out straight while they draped him with ermine, velvet, samite, brocade, and cloth of gold.

From Literature

It concairned a hand and arm, in samite, with a bridle and a candle in its gripe.

From Literature

Textile experts at the Anglo-Saxon Laboratory in York, England, identified several samples as silk samite, a luxury fabric produced in weavers’ workshops in Byzantium, North Africa, or southern Spain.

From National Geographic

The seneschal wore a tokar of maroon samite with golden fringes.

From Literature

He was in crimson samite, his black mantle studded with rubies, on his head his heavy golden crown.

From Literature