Samite

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Samite may refer to :

  • The Ugandan-American musician Samite Mulondo.
  • A Liberty ship
  • A heavy silk fabric, of a twill-type weave, worn in the Middle Ages. Originally the word came from Hexamitum, and indicated the use of 6 varying yarns. [1] 'Samite' Referred to in the poem 'Morte de Arthur' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. "an arm clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful" caught Arthur's sword when it was flung into the lake as he lay dying.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Donald King in Jonathan Alexander & Paul Binski (eds), Age of Chivalry, Art in Plantagenet England, 1200-1400, p157 Royal Academy/Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 1987