Sarcenet

Violet timorously asked, What about the bale of silk sarcenet? ❋ Posie Graeme-Evans (2010)

The young woman was dressed in a lovely gown of white crepe spotted with white satin over a sarcenet slip, trimmed at the neck and sleeves with wreaths of black silk flowers. ❋ Karen Hawkins (2009)

Intense was the low murmur of admiration when a particularly small gentleman, in a dress coat, led on a particularly tall lady in a blue sarcenet pelisse and bonnet of the same, ornamented with large white feathers, and forthwith commenced a plaintive duet. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For them he devised elaborate new fancy-dress costumes, a “blue velvet mantle with a Garter on the left shoulder, lined with white sarcenet and scarlet hose with black velvet around the thighs.” ❋ Joanna Pitman (2006)

He had made a little cuddy there inside his inner sarcenet, and down his plaited neck-cloth ran a sly companionway to it, so that his eyes might steal a visit to the joy that was over his heart and in it. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

There is one certain exception however in this case, and that is, when you are so fortunate a fellow, as to have had your jerkin made of gum-taffeta, and the body-lining to it of a sarcenet, or thin persian. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She was wearing a high-waisted gown of blond net over daffodil-yellow sarcenet and looked as fresh and lovely as the springtime. ❋ Balogh, Mary (1999)

In one I find a slip of thick blue silk cloth, of a texture like sarcenet, beneath which is written, 'The above is a piece of the Prince's garter.' ❋ Mrs. Thomson (N/A)

The crown is neatly lined with white Persian, and strings of sarcenet added. ❋ Cornelia Mee (N/A)

Stitch a piece of silk or sarcenet on a wooden frame with tacks or thread. ❋ C. A. Bogardus (N/A)

Boars-speare in his hande, next to him an other Huntsman in greene, with a bloody faucion drawne; next to him 2 Pages in tafatye sarcenet, each of them with a messe of mustard; next to whome came hee that carried the Boares-head crost with a greene silk scarfe, by which hunge the empty scabbard of the faulcion which was carried before him. ❋ William Francis Dawson (N/A)

The tester and ceiler also shining cloth of gold; the curtains of white sarcenet; as for his head-suit and pillows, they were of the Queen's own ordonnance. ❋ William Francis Dawson (N/A)

I, "accoutred as I was," in motley attire, -- my homely little economies patent to admiring spectators: on either shoulder, budding wings composed of unequal parts of sarcenet-cambric and cotton-batting; and in my heart -- _parricide_ I had almost said, but it was rather the more filial sentiment of desire to operate for cataract upon my father's eyes. ❋ Various (N/A)

Her connexion with the French court, it is to be supposed, suggested the appearance of "xii Frenchmen, whiche were belongyng to the Frenche ambassador," coming "fyrst" in her "company -- in coats of blewe velvet, with sleves of yelowe and blewe velvet, and their horses trapped with close trappers of blewe sarcenet, powdered with white crosses." ❋ Giles Gossip (N/A)