Samite

n. heavy silk fabric which is sometimes interlaced with gold or silver threads (was worn in the Middle Ages)

Samite may refer to :The Ugandan-American musician Samite Mulondo.A Liberty shipA heavy silk fabric, of a twill-type weave, worn in the Middle Ages. The word was derived from the Latin hexamitum, which indicated the use of six varying yarns. It was famously referred to in the poem The Passing of Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, part of his Idylls of the King cycle. "[A]n arm clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful" caught Arthur's sword when it was flung into the lake as he lay dying. This was referenced, too, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Noun
1. a heavy silk fabric (often woven with silver or gold threads); used to make clothing in the Middle Ages
(hypernym) fabric, cloth, material, textile

(a.)
A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold.
  

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