samite

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Textile experts at the Anglo-Saxon Laboratory in York, England, identified several samples as silk samite, a luxury fabric produced in weavers’ workshops in Byzantium, North Africa, or southern Spain.

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In The Last Tournament the street-ways are depicted as hung with white samite, and "children sat in white," and the dames and damsels were all "white-robed in honor of the stainless child."

From Project Gutenberg

His coat of darkest samite became the warrior well.

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Tall and clothed in samite, Chaste and pure, In smooth armor,— Your head held high In its helmet Of silver: Jean D'Arc riding Among the sword blades!

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But the Princess, her bosom heaving as if another pigeon fluttered beneath the white samite, caught it and set it free again, and again it made for the Blue Prince.

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