| 释义 |
samite Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈsæmaɪt|
Forms: 4 samit, samet, 4–5 samyt, 4–6 samyte, 5–6 samite, 6 arch. samitte, 9 arch. samit(e, sammit.
[a. OF. samit = Pr. samit, Sp. jamete (older xamete), It. sciamito, med.L. examitum, exametum, samitum, samittum, ad. med. Gr. ἑξάµιτον (whence OSl. oksamitŭ, Russian aksamit velvet), f. Gr. ἑξα- combining form of ἕξ six + µίτος thread; cf. Gr. δίµιτος double-threaded, as n. dimity. From Fr. the word passed into MHG. as samit (mod.G. sammet, sammt, samt, velvet). Cf. MSw. examit.
The med. Gr. name, lit. ‘six-threaded’, has been variously explained. Usually it has been supposed that the original ‘samite’ was woven of thread composed of six strands of silk; but according to Middleton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 210/1 it ‘was so called because the weft threads were only caught and looped at every sixth thread of the warp, lying loosely on the intermediate part’.]
A rich silk fabric worn in the Middle Ages, sometimes interwoven with gold. Also, † a garment or a cushion of this material. Also fig., attrib., and Comb.
13..K. Alis. 2094 (Bodl. MS.) Alisaunder sytt on a samyt And plaieþ atte ches in his delyȝt. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 873 In an over-gilt samyt Clad she was. c1450Merlin xxx. 608 Ther-on hinge a gipser of purpill samyte bete with golde. 1470–85Malory Arthur i. xxv. 73 In the myddes of the lake Arthur was ware of an arme clothed in whyte samyte. Ibid. xviii. xix. 760 That my barget be couerd with blak samyte ouer and ouer. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 156 She was vestured wyth a samyte of grene. 1599Thynne Animadv. (1875) 35 ‘Dalmaticam de eodem samitto..’, which is to saye, ‘the kinges dalmaticall garmente of the same samitte’. 1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume viii. 93 [A robe for Hen. III] to be made of the best purple-coloured samite (a rich silk). 1842[see mystic A. 5 b]. 1847Thackeray Barbazure i, A surcoat of peach-coloured samite..bespoke him noble. 1938R. Graves Coll. Poems 63 Into their many-shielded, samite-curtained, Jewel-bright hall where twelve Kings sit at chess. 1971‘A. Burgess’ MF xvii. 191 There were fireworks out tonight, thudding and searing the samite air.
¶ jocularly. (Scarlet) plush.
1854Thackeray Newcomes I. vii. 69 Springing down from his station behind his mistress, the youth clad in the nether garments of red sammit discharged thunderclaps on the door of Mrs. Newcome's house. |