Definition of Sarsenets

1. Noun. (plural of sarsenet) ¹

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Definition of Sarsenets

1. sarsenet [n] - See also: sarsenet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarsenets

sarrusophone
sarrusophones
sarsaparilla
sarsaparilla root
sarsaparillas
sarsaparillin
sarsar
sarsars
sarsasapogenin
sarsden
sarsdens
sarse
sarsed
sarsen
sarsenet
sarsenets (current term)
sarsens
sarses
sarsing
sarsnet
sarsnets
sarsparilla
sarsparillas
sartain
sartainties
sartainty
sartin
sartor
sartorial
sartorialism

Literary usage of Sarsenets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

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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