sarcenet

English

Noun

sarcenet (countable and uncountable, plural sarcenets)

1. Alternative form of sarsenet
   • William Shakespeare

     Thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye.

   • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sarcenet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• centares, crenates, enacters, re-enacts, reascent, reenacts, trecenas