satin
nounadjectiveverbattested in dialogue
- //ˈsæt.ɪn//
- /[ˈsæt.n̩]/
- /[ˈsæʔ.n̩]/
A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).
noun
- 1
A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).
Ibn Batuta informs us that a rich silk texture made here was called Zaitûniya; and there can be little doubt that this is the real origin of our word Satin,—Zettani in mediæval Italian, Aceytuni in Spanish.
- 2
obsoleteGin (the drink).
'This poor gal was robbed, barely left a stitch, that and the drink... mind, I likes a drop of satin – wot you'd call gin – myself. I'll say nothing against it. She ended thrown out of an upstairs winder.'
Etymology
From French satin, which is derived from "Zaitun", the Arabic name for the Chinese city of Quanzhou, itself derived from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”), from phono-semantic matching from Chinese 刺桐 (MC tshjeH duwng, “coral tree”) in 刺桐城 (MC tshjeH duwng dzyeng, “coral tree town”), an old name for Quanzhou.
adjective
- 1
Semigloss.
satin paint
verb
- 1
To make (paper, silver, etc.) smooth and glossy like satin.
Forms
- plural
- satins
- past tense
- satined
- past participle
- satined
- present participle
- satining
- third person singular
- satins
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