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sarce·net

(särs

t) KEY

NOUN:

A fine soft silk cloth.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English sarsenet, from Anglo-Norman sarzinett, perhaps from Old French Saracin, Saracen, from Late Latin Saracnus ; see Saracen

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