sateen

See also: säteen

English

Etymology

A 19th century variant of satin, perhaps influenced by velveteen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈtiːn/

• Audio (UK):

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• Hyphenation: sa‧teen

Noun

sateen (countable and uncountable, plural sateens)

1. A type of cotton cloth with a shiny surface and dull back, woven using the technique that, when applied to silk or nylon, results in cloth called satin.
   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 112:

     The elaboration of her sateen costume (somewhat dirty and torn now) showed that she was an optimate.

Related terms

• satin

Translations

a type of shiny cotton cloth

• Bulgarian: сатен m (saten)
• Catalan: setí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 棉緞 / 棉缎 (miánduàn)

• Czech: satén (cs) m
• Japanese: 綿繻子 (めんじゅす, menjyusu), 毛繻子 (けじゅす, kejyusu)
• Māori: tatāna
• Polish: satyna (pl) f
• Slovak: satén m
• Spanish: satén (es) m

Further reading

• “sateen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Santee, Senate, atenes, enates, ensate, senate, tenase

Finnish

Noun

sateen

1. genitive singular of sade

Anagrams

• asteen, saneet, taseen