sarsenet
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Searchable Lemmata: sarsinet (ME), sarsinettum (L), sarsned (W), sarcenet (OScots), sarsenet (MdE), sarcenet (MdE).
Alternate Forms: sarsenet, sarcinet, sarcenet, sarcenette, sarcxinete, sarzinet, sarsnet, sercenet, sarsynet, sarcynet, sarcxynete, sarcenettes.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Textile;
a tabby- woven silk cloth, a type of sendal, light and flimsy; made in Europe in the Middle Ages; imports to England probably came from Italy [King, D. (1993)].
The name probably comes from French sarzinett, probably from Sarzin, 'Saracen' [Chambers], one of the exotic names that came to be preferred to sendal/cendal in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.(1373 still in current use)
2. [4.14] ... [3] kurtyns [of paned red] sarsynet [and bluet] ... [A murrey tunic with 1] revers [of calaber worth 10 s.] ... [A] lynyng [of black sindon] ...
[4.15] ... [A coverlet with a celure joined in one piece of blue] tartaryn [worth 53 s. 4 d.] ...
[4.16] ... [8 sanaps and 10] wardenappes [worth 3 s. 7 d.]
Accounts.
[MED Inquis.Miscel.(PRO) (4.14-16) 1378]
3. My bende for an hat of blak sylk and silvir ... my bende of whit boon with smale bedys of grene ... To John Baret ... the gerdill harneysid with bokel and pendaunth of silver, and my tepet of blak sarsenet
Wills.
[MED Will Bury in Camd.49 (41) 1463]
4. Dyvers Marchauntes, Straungers and Deynzeins, use to bryng into this Reame Clothes of Gold, Clothes of Sylver, Bawdekyns, Velvettes, Damaskes, Satens, Sarcenettes, Tarterons, Chamelettes ... do pakke in the Cite of London ... dyvers Wollen clothes, som grayned, some half grayned, and other Clothes not grayned
Legal.
[MED RParl. (6.154b-155b) 1472/1475]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, AF sarzinett, a variant of Old French sarrasinat ['sarsinet, n.', MED; 'sarsenet, sarcene', OED, 2nd ed. (1989)]. Cf. 'sarazineis', AND1 ('saracen'; 'pagan'). Latham (p. 420) refers to a L form 'sarsinettum', from 1397.
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