FromAnglo-Normansarzinett, fromOld Frenchsarrasinet, diminutive ofsarrazin(“Saracen”).
sarsenet (countable anduncountable,pluralsarsenets)
- A very fine and softsilkribbon woven in a plain weave with a fine warp and higher density weft, now chiefly used for linings.
c.1602 (date written),William Shakespeare,The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published1609,→OCLC, [Act V, scene i],signature K, recto:No, vvhy art thou then exaſperate, thou idle, / immaterial ſkeine of ſleiue ſilke; thou greeneſacenet flap for a ſore eye, thoutoſſell of a prodigalls purſe—[…]
1871–1872,George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XV, inMiddlemarch […], volume(please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London:William Blackwood and Sons,→OCLC, book II:[H]ave not these structures some common basis from which they have all started, as yoursarsnet, gauze, net, satin and velvet from the raw cocoon?
