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samite

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈsæmaɪt/

Definition of samite

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages.
    “[A] robe / Of samite without price, that more exprest / Than hid her, clung about her lissome limbs, / In colour like the satin-shining palm / On sallows in the windy gleams of March: [...]”
    “And in the center of that lake there hath for some time been seen the appearance as of a women's arm--exceedingly beautiful and clad in white samite, and the hand of this arm holdeth a sword of such exceeding excellence and beauty that no eye hath ever beheld like.”

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Etymology

From Middle English samite, from Old French samit, from Medieval Latin samitum, examitum, from Byzantine Greek ἑξάμιτον (hexámiton), from ἕξ (héx, “six”) + μίτος (mítos, “thread”).

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