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Definition of Sarsenets
1. sarsenet [n] - See also: sarsenet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarsenets
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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