Satin

//ˈsæt.ɪn//

"Satin" in a Sentence (13 examples)

She was wearing a gown of satin.

Mary will buy satin material for her new drapes.

I've been looking for a nice satin scarf like that for aeons.

Tom put some red satin sheets on his bed.

Her dress was composed of white satin and Brussels lace, and her hair arranged with a profusion of jewels.

Her dress was composed of white satin and Brussels lace, and her hair arranged with a profusion of jewels, whose lustre made a strange contrast to the deadly paleness of her complexion, and to the trouble which dwelt in her unsettled eye.

The expectation of a showcase wedding featuring a traditional white dress with all the expensive trimmings gained ground after World War II, prompted in part by the availability of new inexpensive fabrics like nylon and rayon — developed during the war to make parachutes — that could be used to make wedding gowns at a far lower cost than satin and silk.

She made a satin skirt and a linen blouse.

At night, visitors to the lantern exhibit pass through red gates and enter a world of light, satin and steel.

Is that a satin dress?

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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.

'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.'

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