Definitions for sarcenets

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sarcenets sarce·net

Spelling: [sahrs-nit]

IPA: /ˈsɑrs nɪt/

Sarcenets is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 589 anagrams from letters in sarcenets (aceenrsst).

Definitions for sarcenets

noun

1. a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
2. a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.

Origin of sarcenets

1425-75; late Middle English sarsenet Anglo-French sarzinet, probably equivalent to sarzin- Saracen + -et -et

Examples for sarcenets

Stitch a piece of silk or sarcenet on a wooden frame with tacks or thread.

"I've laid by a pretty piece of sarcenet of which to make you a capuchin," she said promptly.

sarcenet also is a light webbed silk, and by degrees supplanted cendal.

There is also something satisfactory about baudrik powdered with Cyprian gold, and even about chamelet and sarcenet.

After the usual compliments, I gave her the two pieces of sarcenet she had commissioned me to get.

sarcenet was in those days "a fine soft silk," the word being "probably derived from 'Saracen.'"

I answerde 'sarcenet' by cause of the lest coste to helpe it forward.

Nay, by seynt mary, quod the scoler, he promysyd me ye shulde delyuer me a tipet of sarcenet.

Mr. Archfield came to bring me a pattern of sarcenet to match for poor young Madam in London.

Here the Admiralty clerks wife had a mind to a petticoat of sarcenet bordered with black lace, and probably purchased it.

Stitch a piece of silk or sarcenet on a wooden frame with tacks or thread.

I answerde 'sarcenet' by cause of the lest coste to helpe it forward.

Here the Admiralty clerks wife had a mind to a petticoat of sarcenet bordered with black lace, and probably purchased it.

"I've laid by a pretty piece of sarcenet of which to make you a capuchin," she said promptly.

Mr. Archfield came to bring me a pattern of sarcenet to match for poor young Madam in London.

sarcenet was in those days "a fine soft silk," the word being "probably derived from 'Saracen.'"

Nay, by seynt mary, quod the scoler, he promysyd me ye shulde delyuer me a tipet of sarcenet.

sarcenet also is a light webbed silk, and by degrees supplanted cendal.

After the usual compliments, I gave her the two pieces of sarcenet she had commissioned me to get.

There is also something satisfactory about baudrik powdered with Cyprian gold, and even about chamelet and sarcenet.