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samite


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Samite  \Sa"mite\,  a.  [OF.  samit,  LL  samitum  examitum  from 
  LGr.  ?,  ?  woven  with  six  threads;  Gr  ?  six  +  ?  a  thread.  See 
  {Six},  and  cf  {Dimity}.] 
  A  species  of  silk  stuff,  or  taffeta,  generally  interwoven 
  with  gold.  --Tennyson. 
 
  In  silken  samite  she  was  light  arrayed.  --Spenser. 




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