Heavy silk fabric in the Middle Ages

Usage examples of samite.

Beneath lay ells of costly silks, samites, cendals, and damasks, as well as pelts of ermine and sable.

How they clothe their figures in every conceivable splendor of orphrey and ermine, in jewels and shining armor and rich stuff of silk and samite, in robe of scarlet or in yellow dalmatic!

It is scarlet- samite- trimmed with gold thread and, below, its gown of green and silver, and I shall wear my pelisson lined with squirrel fur if Nell can fred it.

There were silks in rose samite, violet sendal, and a heavy green and blue damask.

Bagdad, Greek Samite, linens of the finest quality known as sindon, similar to a delicate lawn, and of course the famous Yorkshire wool.

Edged with miniver, her layered gown of lavender samite was richly netted in gold braid and seed-pearls, the full sarsenet sleeves foaming with delicate white lace.

In the golden twilight, the linen grave clothes gleamed like rarest samite, and the faces of both monks and mourners glowed.

The form and face of the being who thus presented himself were those of a frightful dwarf, with a large head, a cap fantastically adorned with three peacock feathers, a dress of red samite, the richness of which rendered his ugliness more conspicuous, distinguished by gold bracelets and armlets, and a white silk sash, in which he wore a gold-hilted dagger.

That cape he had flourished was thick maroon samite trimmed in ermine, while he wore a belt of gold links and spurred jackboots whose leather was soft and supple enough for gloves.

The Samite way of universal tolerance was the only way she knew to bring about a better world.

In the crook of his left arm, as he took his place beside Walid Pasha on the quarterdeck, was his choice of helmets for todayan old-fashioned burgonet covered in bright-green samite and fined with a bar visor.

Their robes rustled, whispering to the stone steps-Lady Ylle's green robe of damasked silk, the king's brocaded violet robe, Lord Garan's unadorned robe of rusty gold samite.

Then Balin looked into a fair little garden, and under a laurel tree he saw her lie upon a quilt of green samite and a knight in her arms, fast halsing either other, and under their heads grass and herbs.

So they rode till they came to a lake, the which was a fair water and broad, and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand.

There was no arm hi white samite, no wailing, only ripples on the mere and a sea bird’.