Middle English Dictionary Entry
sarsinet n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sarsinet n. Also sarsenet, sarcinet, sarcenet(te, sarcxinete, sarzinet, sarsnet, sercenet. |
| Etymology | AF sarzinett, var. of OF sarrasinat. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A fine silk material; also, a length of this material.
Associated quotations
- (1373) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)2.155 : [A cloth of] sarzinet.
- (1378) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)4.14 : [3] kurtyns [of paned red] sarsynet [and bluet].
- (1388) Invent.Westm.in Archaeol.52231 : Sextum vero par est de rubeo panno de Sarcynet cotidianum.
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.166 : [A] gowne [of] sarcxynete.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4941 : To John Baret..the gerdill harneysid with bokel and pendaunth of silver, and my tepet of blak sarsenet.
- (1463) Will York in Sur.Soc.30258 : Lego..j mantellum linatam cum sercenet.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57164 : My lady Marget..owyth my mastyre vij yerdes of wygth sarsenet for ij shertes.
- (1472-5) RParl.6.154b : Dyvers Marchauntes, Straungers and Deynzeins, use to bryng into this Reame Clothes of Gold, Clothes of Sylver, Bawdekyns, Velvettes, Damaskes, Satens, Sarcenettes, Tarterons, Chamelettes.
- (?1474) Stonor1.146 : The vestments of purpulle velvet lynud with grene sarsnet.
- (1477) RParl.6.189a : It shal be leefull to the Wyfe and Doughters unmaried..to use and were in their Colers, Ventes, and Slefes of their Gownes and Hukes Sateyn, Chamelet, Sarcenet, or Tarteron.
- a1600(1472) Rec.Bluemantle (Jul C.6)387 : There was ordeined a bed..ye tester and ye seler also sheving clothe of gold, curtens of whyt sarsenette.