samite Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a heavy silk fabric (often woven with silver or gold threads); used to make clothing in the Middle Ages

WordNet

Sa"mite adjective
Etymology
OF. samit, LL. samitum, examitum, from LGr. , woven with six threads; Gr. six + a thread. See Six, and cf. Dimity.
Definitions
  1. A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold. Tennyson.
    In silken samite she was light arrayed. Spenser.

Webster 1913