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Definition of Sarsenets
1. sarsenet [n] - See also: sarsenet
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Literary usage of Sarsenets
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1. A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical: Of the Various by John Ramsay McCulloch, Frederick Martin (1866)
"The silk fabrics comprise velvets, figured sarsenets, figured and plain Levantines,
plain satins, ..."
2. Selections from Calcutta Gazettes: Showing the Political and Social by Walter Scott Seton-Karr (1868)
"Black and white Patent Nett—Crapes—sarsenets- Satins—Persians—plain and striped
Gauze—Chambrey Muslins—Muslin Plaid and black ditto—Black Velvet—Fancy ..."
3. The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge (1853)
"All dressed ribbons, as satins, gauzes, &c., are made in the loom one- twelfth
of an inch wider than sarsenets, in order to allow for the diminution of ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1903)
"So thitherward she came with all her train, and immediately all the lonely forest
was made gay with silks and sarsenets and cloth of gold and silver, ..."
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