scarceness
Example Sentences
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The silks, damasks, taffetas, sarcenets, altobassos or counterfeit cloth of gold, unwrought China silk, sleaved silk, white twisted silk, and curled cypress.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Kerr, Robert
Behind him were a score of his knights, brilliant in silks and sarcenets, some seated on an upturned boat and some swinging their legs from the bulwark.
From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
