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sarsenet
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tags: [fashion]
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Definition:A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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My shirts
I'll have of taffeta-sarsnet, soft and light
As cobwebs; and for all my other raiment,
It shall be such as might provoke the Persian,
Were he to teach the world riot anew.
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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Thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye.
William Shakespeare. The History of Troilus and Cressida (1609)
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