▪ I. satin, n. (and a.)
(ˈsætɪn)
Forms: 4–5 satyne, -ine, 4–6 satyn, sat(t)on, 5 sathan, 5–6 saten, sateyn, 5–7 sattyn, 5–8 satten, 6 satte(i)ne, sat(t)an, satyng, Sc. saiting, satteing, salting, 6–8 sattin(e, 6– satin.
[a. F. satin (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.; the supposed popular OF. form saïn, cited by Diez, is an error), app. ad. It. † setino, prob. repr. late L. *(pannus) sētīnus silken (cloth), f. sēta silk. Cf. Pg. setim (? from It.), late med.L. satinius, satinus (from Fr.), setīnus (1594, from Spain); also Du. satijn.
The word cannot be connected etymologically with the app. synonymous Arab. zaitūnī, f. Zaitūn name of a city in China (the locality of which is disputed). F. Hirth (Arch. Stud. neu. Spr. LXVII, 1882, p. 204) suggests that the Arabs may have confused the name of the town with the Cantonese sze-tün = Mandarin ssū-tuan, satin; but the conjecture that the Cantonese form is the source of It. setino is extremely improbable.]
I. 1. A silk fabric with a glossy surface on one side, produced by a method of weaving by which the threads of the warp are caught and looped by the weft only at certain intervals. † satin of Cypres: see cypress3 1 b.
| ? a 1366 Chaucer Rom. Rose 1104 The barres were of gold ful fyne, Upon a tissu of satyne. [The word is not in the original Fr.] c 1369 ― Dethe Blaunche 253 Ryght wel cledde In fyne blak satyn de owter mere. c 1400 Brut 458 And iij. other estates with hem, clothed in oon sute, in rede fyne saten crymsyn furred with Martrons. 1435 in Dugdale Bar. Eng. (1675) 246/1 Item, Three Penons of Satten, entertailed with Raggedstaffs, price the peece 2s. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 441/2 Satyne, clothe of sylke, satinum. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xxx. 325 With youre bendys and youre bridyls of sathan, the whilke sir sathanas Idyls you for tha ilke This gill knaue. 1506 in Bury Wills (Camden) 107 A vestement of whyte sateyn and poudrid w{supt} Seynt Nicholas armes. 1530 Palsgr. 265/1 Sattyn of cypres—ostadine. a 1555 Lyndesay Trag. Prol. 21 In Rayment reid..Off vellot and of Saityng Crammosie. 1580 Aberdeen Reg. (1848) II. 36 Ane [cloak] lynt witht salting, ane uther witht taffetie. 1603 in 38th Rep. Deputy Kpr. Records App. 444 Sattins reverses, sattins of Cipres, Spanish sattins. 1628 Feltham Resolves i. xviii. 56 Poore men, though wise, are but like Sattens without a glosse. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. 29 Her coat white sattin, quilted. 1853 C. Brontë Villette xxi, The middle distance was filled with matrons in velvets and satins, in plumes and gems. 1855 Tennyson Maud i. xxii. 9 In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. 1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I am xi, The draperies and chair and sofa coverings were of amber satin. |
| transf. 1616 R. C. Times' Whistle vii. 2938 Her skin sleek sattin or the cygnettes brest. |
b. Applied to certain fabrics resembling satin, but composed wholly or in part of other materials than silk.
† satin of Bruges (Bridges),
Bruges satin: see
quot. 1728.
Denmark satin: a smooth worsted material used for ladies' slippers.
| 1517–1599 [see Bruges]. 1728 Chambers Cycl. s.v., The Sattins of Bruges have their Warp of Silk, and their Woof of Thread. 1875 Ure's Dict. Arts, Denmark satin, a stout worsted stuff used for ladies' shoes. |
c. A woman's satin dress.
| 1787 ‘T. Wignell’ Contrast i. 2 She is to be married in a delicate white sattin. 1866 Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. I. xxvi. 287, I remember the time when Mrs Kirkpatrick wore old black silks..and now she is in a satin. 1932 [see low-cut s.v. low adv.]. 1958 J. Cannan And be a Villain iv. 100 A high-waisted pomegranate satin with gold lace sleeves. |
† 2. A kind of pear.
Obs.| 1693 Evelyn De La Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 109 b, A Summer Satin-pear. Ibid. 121 The Green-Satin-Pear, January. 1706 London & Wise Retir'd Gard. I. vii. 33 The Satin is round; its Coat is yellow, and smooth like Satin; 'tis a melting sugar'd Pear, and in good Esteem. |
3. The plant Honesty,
Lunaria biennis. Also
white satin.
Cf. satin-flower in 8 b.
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. cxvii. 378 We cal this herb in English Pennie flower..in Northfolk Sattin, and white Sattin. 1668 Wilkins Real Char. 103 Bulbonach, Honesty, Sattin. 1785 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxiii. (1794) 320 The brilliant whiteness of these silicles has occasioned this plant [Honesty] to be called White Sattin. |
4. slang. Gin. Also
white satin.
| 1845 J. R. Planché Golden Fleece i. 13 An ardent spirit, known By several names..Some ‘Cupid's eye water’ the liquor call, ‘White Satin’ some. 1854 Househ. Words VIII. 75 For..gin, we have ten synonyms: max, juniper,..cream of the valley, white satin, old Tom. 1865 Slang Dict., Satin, gin; ‘a yard of satin,’ a glass of gin. 1934 T. S. Eliot Rock ii. 66, I brought you along a drop o' satin. Four glasses and all. |
5. A collector's name for a glossy white moth. Also
white satin.
| 1766 M. Harris Aurelian (1778) 9 White Sattin. 1819 G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 248 Satin moth. 1832 J. Rennie Conspect. Butterfl. & M. 41 The Satin..appears in July. 1857 H. T. Stainton Brit. Butterfl. & Moths I. 134 Stilpnotia Salicis (White Satin). 1869 E. Newman Brit. Moths 36 The Satin Moth (Liparis Salicis). |
6. A domestic rabbit belonging to the breed so called, developed in America during the early 1930s by Walter A. Huey and distinguished by smooth fur with a satin-like sheen. Also
attrib.| 1934 W. L. Cotta in Fur Animals Aug. 3/1, I take great pleasure in describing, for the first time publicly, the most amazing rabbit of all time, the Satin Havana. 1935 Small Stock Mag. Aug. 7/2 Anything in the nature of a boom will do the satin more harm than good. 1946 Amer. Rabbit Jrnl. XVI. 44/2 In 1936 the American Satin Rabbit Breeders Association was organized. Ibid. 45/1 With the exception of the Satin Havanas, none of the Satin breeds have an Approved Working Standard. 1947 Fur & Feather 9 May 191/3 The Satin..a beautiful animal..comes in various colours, white, an orange, blue, black... Its fur feels like satin. It is a breed about nine years old and was started from a freak litter of Havanas. 1957 J. C. Sandford Domestic Rabbit i. 2 A second mutation of a coat character is the Satin. Ibid. 3 The Satin coat has also been combined with a number of colours. 1979 G. R. Scott Rabbit Keeping i. 26 The Satin rabbit is another mutation. Ibid., The early Satins were ivory in colour. |
II. Attrib. and
Comb. 7. attrib. passing into adj. a. Made of satin.
| 1521 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 6 My blake sattan jackett. 1580 Aberdeen Reg. (1848) II. 36 Item, ane pair of satteing breikis. 1599 Marston Sco. Villanie 166 Each sattin sute, Each quaint fashion-monger, whose sole repute Rests in his trim gay clothes. 1606 Pricket in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1847) 101 A sattin sute, bedawb'd with silvered lace, Beyond desert doth vildest clownship grace. 1676 Hale Contempl. i. 497 When you are in the Publick Worship and Service of God,..if the weather be too cold, wear a satten cap. 1750 Gray Long Story 14 His high-crown'd hat and sattin-doublet. 1866 Geo. Eliot F. Holt i, You shall have nothing to do now but to be grandmamma on satin cushions. |
| fig. 1635 Quarles Emblems v. vii. 270 A land, where each embroydred Sattin word Is lin'd with Fraud. |
b. Resembling satin in texture or surface.
| 1826 Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. 60 The satin palms with their honeyed odours are out on the willow. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 42 When sublimed, it [Benzoic Acid] assumes the form of long flat prismatic needles, having a beautiful satin lustre. 1851 Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 369 The best satin note-paper. 1866 Reader 12 May 471 The papers..retain the gloss, the bright ‘satin’ surface of the albumenized material. 1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. i. vii. 103 Boys emerged from the tuckshop, sucking gelatines and satin pralines and chocolate creams. 1930 E. Pound XXX Cantos vii. 27 Square even shoulders and the satin skin, Gone cheeks of the dancing woman. 1975 P. Moyes Black Widower v. 56 A single big tear ran down her black satin cheek. 1977 Hot Car Oct. 59/2 The finish will be a nice satin which is a sod to keep clean. |
c. Clothed in satin. (In 17th
cent. a mark of dandyism).
| 1603 Dekker Wonderfull Yeare A iij, The stinking Tobacco-breath of a Sattin-gull. a 1613 Overbury A Wife, &c. (1638) 35 Where if his Russet-friend would chance to dine, Whether his Satten-friend would fill him wine. 1624 Heywood Captives iv. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. IV. 187 The pesent with his homespoon lasse As many merry howers may passe As coortiers with there sattin guerles. 1912 W. de la Mare Listeners & Other Poems 8 Her satin bosom heaving slow With sighs that softly ebb and flow. |
8. General combinations:
a. simple
attrib., as
satin-like adj.;
b. instrumental, similative, and parasynthetic, as
satin-clad,
satin-faced,
satin-frilled,
satin-leaved,
satin-lidded,
satin-lined,
satin-purfled,
satin-sandalled,
satin-shimmering,
satin-shining,
satin-smooth,
satin-striped,
satin-worked,
adjs.| 1881 ‘Mark Twain’ Prince & Pauper xxxii. 349 *Satin-clad officials are flitting and glinting everywhere. |
| 1891 Kipling Light that Failed iii, A portly middle-aged gentleman in a *satin-faced frockcoat. |
| 1949 Blunden After Bombing 25 Enchanting poppies *satin⁓frilled. |
| 1897 M. Kingsley W. Africa 570 Patches of *satin-leaved begonias. |
| 1879 E. Arnold Lt. Asia 84 The *satin-lidded eyes, with lashes dropped Sweeping the delicate cheeks. |
| 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris 59 A very smooth *Sattin-like Skin. 1719 London & Wise Compl. Gard. iv. ii. 68 When mellow, the Skin is slick and Satin-like. 1919 E. Pound Quia Pauper Amavi 16 There is a satin-like bow on the harp. |
| 1891 Lock to Lock Times 24 Oct. 12/1 A *satin-lined Inverness cape. |
| 1862 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 10 And trample and tread The *satin-purfled smooth to foam. |
| 1917 Blunden Poems (1930) 44 *Satan-sandalled Chloes glimmering. |
| 1952 R. Campbell tr. Baudelaire's Poems 89 On *satin-shimmering, downy avalanches. |
| 1859 Tennyson Vivien 222 A robe..In colour like the *satin-shining palm On sallows. |
| 1847 C. Brontë J. Eyre xiv, This *satin-smooth hazel hair. |
| 1882 Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, *Satin-striped Canvas..is a fancy variety of embroidery Canvas. |
| 1799 Hull Advertiser 30 Nov. 1/1 *Satin worked..muslins. |
9. Special combinations.
a. Used to designate materials resembling, or woven in the same manner as, satin; as
satin cloth, a woollen cloth woven like satin, chiefly produced at Roubaix in France;
satin-damask (see
quot.);
satin-finish, a polish for silver produced by means of a metallic brush; also any effect resembling satin in texture or surface produced on materials in various ways;
satin foulards (see
quot.);
satin jean (see
quot. 1875);
satin leather,
satin oil, leather finished so as to resemble satin;
satin-paper, a fine writing paper;
satin sheeting, a composite material of waste silk and cotton;
satin stitch, a kind of stitch in embroidery and wool-work, imitating the appearance of satin;
satin-straw, soft flexible straw used for hats;
satin-tails, streamers of satin attached to ladies' dresses;
satin weave (see
quot. 1897);
satin wire (see
quot. 1925).
| 1882 Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, *Satin Cloth, a French woollen material of Satin make. |
| 1557–71 A. Jenkinson Voy. & Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) I. 90 *Satton damaske with diuers other things. 1882 Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, Satin Damask, a very costly silk material. |
| 1865 Mrs. Stowe House & Home Papers 157 For *satin finish,..American papers equal any in the world. 1901 Daily Chron. 7 Dec. 8/3 [Ornaments] made in art silver, with what is called a satin finish. 1929 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 7/2 Frequently the surface [of glass] had been dulled by acid so as to produce a ‘satin’ finish. 1959 Gloss. Packaging Terms (B.S.I.) 32 Satin finish, a decorative matt finish mechanically or chemically applied to aluminium and tinplate sheets. 1969 New Yorker 27 Sept. 92/3 (Advt.), It's Norway Pewter with the gleaming, never-tarnish satin finish. 1972 Homes & Gardens Mar. 106/2 They [sc. paints] are obtainable in gloss, semi-gloss, eggshell and satin finishes. 1974 Harrods Christmas Catal. 8 Housecoat in washable satin-finish flocked nylon. |
| 1882 Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, *Satin Foulards..are silk stuffs printed in various designs and colours. |
| 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., *Satin-jean, a twilled cotton goods, having a smooth satiny surface. c 1885 Weldon's Pract. Needlework IV. 3/1 Executed..on a ground of white satin jean. |
| 1802 Monthly Mag. XIV. 203/2 White and chamois leather..are evidently in danger of being beat out of the market by the English *satin-leather. 1903 L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning xiv. 264 Wax calf and satin leather are finished upon the flesh or inner side. 1971 T. C. Collocott Dict. Sci. & Technol. 1033/1 Satin leather.., leather with a perfectly smooth finish and without grain marks. |
| 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 517/3 Men's *Satin Oil Congress Gaiters. 1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) xxviii. 424 This blacking is for satin oil, glove grain, plow grain, oil grain and dongola. |
| 1834 M. Edgeworth Tour in Connemara (1950) 55 Mr. Jones wrote me as elegant a note as ever you saw on *satin paper. 1840 Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. XXI. 684/1 I'll keep everything: the red wax, because it's like your lips; the black wax, because it's like your hair; and the satin paper, because it's like your skin! 1866 W. Collins Armadale iii. xiii, Supply me with a quire of extra double-wove satin paper, and a gross of picked quills. |
| 1882 Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, *Satin Sheeting, one of the ‘waste-silk’ materials. |
| 1684 H. Woolley Queen-like Closet Suppl. 57 Work it in *Satten-stitch. 1840 F. Trollope Widow Married ii, The profusion of elaborate satin-stitch bestowed upon its cuffs and collar. |
| 1900 Daily News 3 Mar. 6/5 There are many varieties of *satin straws and grades of varying suppleness. |
| 1841 Thackeray Chron. Drum, Lovely Court ladies in powder, And lappets, and long *satin-tails. |
| 1897 Stephenson & Suddards Text Bk. Ornamental Design Woven Fabrics 104 What is known in textile manufacturing as a *satin weave, which is a construction of cloth where the weft comes to the surface in greater proportion than the warp, or vice versa, in a certain definite order. 1964 McCall's Sewing iv. 52/2 Satin weaves produce smooth, lustrous fabrics. 1969 Sears Catal. Spring/Summer 20 Blazer stripes in a satin weave on sand beige. |
| 1899 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) xxii. 261 *Satin wire. 1925 G. E. Martin Make your Own Hats (rev. ed.) i. 4 Satin wire, the thickest wire used in millinery, covered with a padding of cotton and then wrapped with silk; sometimes used for head line and edge wires. 1966 Satin wire [see millinery 3]. |
b. In names of birds, insects, plants, and minerals having a satin-like lustre or smoothness:
satin beauty, a moth,
Boarmia abietaria (Stainton
Brit. Butterflies & Moths. 1859);
satin bell = mariposa lily;
satin-bird or
satin bower-bird,
Ptilorhynchus violaceus;
satin-carpet, a moth,
Cerotopacha fluctuosa; also
= satin beauty;
satin-flower, (
a) Honesty,
Lunaria biennis;
† (
b) French Honeysuckle,
Hedysarum coronarium; (
c) the Greater Stitchwort,
Stellaria Holostea; (
d) in Australia, the umbelliferous plant
Actinotus helianthi; (
e) a small herb of the genus
Sisyrinchium,
esp. S. douglasii, which is native to western North America and has grass-like leaves and small blue or purple flowers;
† satin-grakle, an Australian bird,
perh. Calornis metallica;
satin gypsum, a fibrous variety of gypsum, with a pearly lustre;
satin-leaves (see
quot.);
satin moth (see 5);
satin-pug, a moth,
Eupithecia sericeata;
satin-pygmy, a moth,
Microsetia sericiella;
satin-spar, a fibrous variety of carbonate of lime; also
= satin-gypsum;
satin-sparrow (see
quot.);
satin-stone = satin gypsum;
satin-walnut U.S., a trade name for the Sweet Gum Tree,
Liquidambar styraciflua;
satin wave, a white moth,
Sterrha subsericeata;
satin-white, artificial sulphate of lime;
satin-wood, the wood of the Indian tree
Chloroxylon Swietenia and of several W. Indian trees
esp. Fagara flava; also, the similar yellowish wood of any of several African or Australian trees,
esp. Daphnandra micrantha or
Zanthoxylum brachyacanthum; also, any of the trees producing this timber; the colour of this timber.
| 1898 A. M. Davidson Calif. Plants 123 Mariposas are..sometimes called globe tulips,..the *satin-bell or fairy's lantern. 1925 W. L. Jepson Man. Flowering Plants Calif. 237 White Globe Lily..Also called Snow-drops, Indian Bells, and Satin Bells. |
| 1825–6 Vigors & Horsfield in Trans. Linnean Soc. (1827) XV. 264 The natives call it Cowry, the colonists *Satin Bird. 1860 G. Bennett Gatherings Nat. Austral. 234 Satin-birds are now seen very frequently in captivity in Sydney. |
| 1848 Gould Birds Austral. IV. pl. 10 Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus Kuhl. *Satin Bower-bird. |
| 1832 J. Rennie Conspect. Butterfl. & M. 82 The *Satin Carpet appears the middle of June. 1869 E. Newman Brit. Moths 64 The Satin Carpet (Boarmia abietaria). Ibid. 239 The Satin Carpet (Cymatophora fluctuosa). |
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. cxvii. 377 Bolbonac or the *Sattin flower, hath hard and round stalkes. 1629 Parkinson Paradisus 339 Hedysarum clypeatum. The red Sattin flower. 1854 Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. (1861) I. 245 Greater Stitchwort, Satin⁓flower, or Adder's Meat. 1860 G. Bennett Gatherings Nat. Austral. 358 A profusion of the Sunflower Actinotus, called Satin-flower by the colonists. 1882 G. P. Lathrop Echo of Passion iv. 76 Marigolds and satin-flowers..were growing in the midst of rank weeds. 1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 18 Apr. 22/2 Numerous clumps of satin flower blend their purple hued petals with the rosy shooting star. |
| 1822 Latham Gen. Hist. Birds III. 171 *Satin Grakle... Inhabits New-Holland. |
| 1836–41 Brande Chem. (ed. 5) 682 A beautiful fibrous variety, called *satin gypsum, is found in Derbyshire, applicable to ornamental purposes, such as beads, broaches, &c. |
| 1864 Grindon Brit. & Gard. Bot. 152 The old-fashioned ‘honesty’, or Lunaria, the beauty of which lies in the great oval silvery shields that form the partitions of its seed-pods... They are often as large as florins, and in Cheshire are called ‘*satin-leaves’. |
| 1832 J. Rennie Conspect. Butterfl. & M. 132 The *Satin Pug. |
| Ibid. 205 The *Satin Pygmy..appears the end of May. |
| 1802 Aikin in Tilloch's Philos. Mag. XII. 364 The *satin spar..is a mineral as yet peculiar to the neighbourhood of Alston Moor, in Cumberland. 1804 Jameson Syst. Min. I. 498 Common Fibrous Limestone... The sattin spar found in Derbyshire belongs to this kind. 1875 Dawson Dawn of Life vii. 188 The prismatic structure of satin-spar may be said..to resemble that of a shell. |
| 1894 Newton Dict. Birds 814 *Satin-sparrow, the name in Tasmania for Myiagra nitida, a Flycatcher. |
| 1829 Glover's Hist. Derby I. 101 Fibrous or silky Gypsum..has a curious cat's-eye appearance, and is commonly called *Satin stone. |
| 1897 G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora U.S. 205 Sweet Gum..*Satin Walnut. 1901 Daily Chron. 22 Aug. 7/5 ‘Sweet gum’ is the name most generally used in the United States, and the wood was a drug until its name was changed by a smart trader to ‘satin walnut’. 1949 Collingwood & Brush Knowing your Trees 247/1 Sweetgum..is frequently marketed as satin walnut. |
| 1908 R. South Moths Brit. Isles 2nd Ser. 117 The *Satin Wave... The wings of this species are glossy whitish. 1958 W. J. Stokoe Caterpillars Brit. Moths II. 29 The Satin Wave..is widely distributed throughout England and Wales. |
| 1839 Civ. Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 141/1 The satin ground is laid with *satin white. |
| 1792 G. Imlay Topogr. Descr. W. Territory N. Amer. 214 *Satin-wood tree. Not classed. 1799 Times 1 June 4/1 (Advt.), Cabinet articles..in mahogany, satin, and other woods. Ibid., Valuable, and seasoned stock of Mahogany and satin wood in lots, planks, boards, and veneers. 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. App. 47 With respect to mahogany, satin and other choice woods. 1847 Tennyson Princess ii. 90 She herself Erect behind a desk of satin-wood. 1866 Treas. Bot. s.v., Bahamas Satinwood, a timber supposed to be the produce of Maba guineensis. 1871 Kingsley At Last x, Here..was a house of satin-wood and cedar not two years old. 1884 Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 31 Xanthoxylum Caribæum... Satin Wood. Semi-tropical Florida [etc.]. 1884 A. Nilson Timber Trees New South Wales 50 D[aphnandra] micrantha.—Satin-wood; Light yellow-wood... Timber fragrant, quite yellow when fresh. Ibid. 125 Z[anthoxylum] brachyacanthum. Satinwood; Thorny Yellowwood. 1902 G. S. Boulger Wood v. 97 About 1750, Satinwood..became fashionable for coach-panels. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 145/1 Stains..as used by the Working Ladies Guild, colours:—Rosewood, Satinwood, Oak, [etc.]. 1908 [see obeche]. 1920 [see afrormosia]. 1926–7 [see maple 2 b]. 1936 R. H. Anderson Trees New South Wales 127 Socket Wood..is also known as Light Yellow-wood, Satin Wood, and occasionally as Sassafras. 1958 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. July 73/2 There is a great variety of satinwoods. 1962 S. Wynter Hills of Hebron v. 73 The indent where the pulse beat was smooth, like satinwood. |
c. In
Fr. combinations (some of them anglicized in form) serving as trade names for certain textile fabrics, as
satin beauté, a soft finely woven material with a dull crêpe back and brilliant satin finish;
satin de chine, a silk fabric with a silk finish;
satin de laine [
= ‘wool satin’: see
delaine];
satin de Lyon(s) (see
quots.);
satin lisse [F.
lisse smooth];
satin sultan,
satin turk [F.
turc = Turkish] (see
quots.).
| 1922 Daily Mail 18 Dec. 8 Her gown, in the Early Italian style, will be of cream *satin beauté. 1928 Times 9 May 10/6 A draped gown of lavender satin beauté, embroidered with silver. |
| 1880 L. Higgin Handbk. Embroidery ii. 14 ‘*Satin de Chine’, and other silk-faced materials of the same class. 1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 1095/1 Satin de Lyon..Satin de Chine, for dress linings. 1969 R. T. Wilcox Dict. Costume 303/2 Satin de chine,..was known in medieval Europe... Because of its exquisite texture, it became a court favorite. |
| 1851 *Satin de laine [see mousseline 1 b]. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Satin-de-laine, a black cassimere manufactured in Silesia, from wool. |
| 1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork ii. 115 *Satin de Lyons, of a fine close quality, may be used with water-colors. 1915 L. Harmuth Dict. Textiles 137/2 Satin de Lyon, silk satin made with a twilled back, and finely striped face, used for lining. 1969 R. T. Wilcox Dict. Costume 303/2 Satin de lyon, satin with a ribbed back. Used for masculine evening wear trim such as top hat, waistcoat, lapel or trouser stripes. |
| 1882 Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, *Satin Lisse, a French dress material made of cotton, but having a Satin-like lustre. |
| Ibid., *Satin Sultan, a textile somewhat resembling Bengaline in the method of its manufacture, but having a satin face. |
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Satin-Turk, a trade term for a superior quality of satinette. |
▪ II. satin, v. (
ˈsætɪn)
[f. satin n. Cf. F. satiner.] trans. To give (to wall-paper) a glossy surface resembling that of satin. Hence
ˈsatining vbl. n. (also
attrib.).
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 921 Pieces intended to be satined, are grounded with fine Paris plaster. Ibid. 922 A final satining,..is communicated by the friction of a finely polished brass roller. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Satining-machine, a machine for imparting the ‘satin’ finish to paper. |