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Definition of Byssine
1. a. Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance.
Definition of Byssine
1. made of fine linen [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Byssine
Literary usage of Byssine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (1885)
"byssine. A fine cloth. The name is derived from byssus, ... a Mediterranean
bivalve, ^y some, byssine has been held to denote a fine cotton ; by others a ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"... I assail My byssine vesture and Sidonian veil. ANTISTROPHE VI My nuptial right
in Heaven's pure sight Pollution were, death-laden, rude; ..."
3. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and by Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, John Gardner Wilkinson (1889)
"Clemens thinks byssine garments , were invented in the time of Semiramis, king
of Egypt (Strom, ip 807). The Egyptians employed gum for the bands, ..."
4. Egyptian Antiquities by British Museum Dept. of Egyptian Antiquities, George Long (1846)
"Yet, if the historian is consistent, we must interpret byssine sindon to be linen,
for he says that the linen garment worn by the living is also interred ..."
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