† satiˈnisco Obs.
Also 7 sattinisco, satanisco.
[pseudo-Sp., f. satin n., after words like Morisco.]
An inferior quality of satin.
| 1615 Overbury's Char., Fellow of House (ed. 6) L 3, His meanes..afford him Mock-veluet or Satinisco. 1619 Purchas Microcosmus xxvii. 268 The new deuised names of Stuffes and Colours,..Callimanco, Sattinisco [etc.]. 1639 H. Glapthorne Wit in Constable i. (1640) B 3, You meere Schollers Know no degree of garment above Serge, Or Satanisco. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Norwich (1662) ii. 274 Also [there were stuffs called] Perpetuano..Satinisco, Bombicino, Italiano, &c. |