samite
/ˈsæmaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[A] robe / Of samite without price, that more exprest / Than hid her, clung about her lissome limbs, / In colour like the satin-shining palm / On sallows in the windy gleams of March: [...]"
- "And in the center of that lake there hath for some time been seen the appearance as of a women's arm--exceedingly beautiful and clad in white samite, and the hand of this arm holdeth a sword of such exceeding excellence and beauty that no eye hath ever beheld like."
Etymology
From Middle English samite, from Old French samit, from Medieval Latin samitum, examitum, from Byzantine Greek ἑξάμιτον (hexámiton), from ἕξ (héx, “six”) + μίτος (mítos, “thread”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: samite, samit, samitum, ἑξάμιτον