(n.) A silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I first met her around Camden she was just some twit in a pink satin jacket shuffling round bars with mutual friends, most of whom were in cool indie bands or peripheral Camden figures Withnail-ing their way through life on impotent charisma.
(2) George will be christened in a replica of the intricate lace and satin christening gown made for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Victoria, the princess royal, in 1841.
(3) There is no mention of the "shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather" of the Velvet Underground song, but Wanda's clothes are recorded precisely, the satins, the linens – above all, the furs.
(4) Non-coated specimens having a satin surface finish were also embedded in bone cement and tested.
(5) Charles's sombre but still-beautiful features, the waterfall of black curls, the exquisite lace at his throat, the satin and velvet of the royal vestments inspired the artists of the day to some memorable work.
(6) Lactation records (n = 86) from 60 does of four breeds (Californian, New Zealand White, Palomino and White Satin) were analyzed to assess the effects of breed, parity, day of lactation and number of kits on milk production.
(7) And the evening dresses in slippery satin, ruched and clasped with crystal reimaginings of the metal clips used in school dissection seemed vaguely sinister in origin – although, in true contradictory Kane signature style, these dresses were among the most elegant and desirable on the catwalk.
(8) A reproduction of a christening gown worn by royal babies since 1841, it's appropriately luxurious for its royal occupant – long and made of ivory satin and yards of delicate lace, it has little puffed sleeves.
(9) At Tony Soprano's Bada-Bing – used as a location in the series though actually named Satin Dolls – bored-looking Russian women in bikinis clustered around heavy-set Italian-American men to the sound of 70s rock.
(10) A sequel to The Stud, The Bitch continues the story of Fontaine Khaled, who has "an Arab millionaire among her yesterdays and hard-gambling Nico for all her tomorrows", as she "calls the shots from her plush limos and black satin sheets".
(11) I held up that first puppy, who I called Patient Zero,” she told me, “and I said, ‘I don’t know what this is gonna do to you, but you will live on a satin pillow the rest of your days.” The injection made the dogs infertile, but left them otherwise happy and healthy.
(12) In fashion, we have the mainstream fashion line and the modest fashion line,” says Malaysian designer Hazizul Abd Aziz of Aidijuma who favors cool satins and cottons.
(13) Do they also have black satin sheets, R Kelly playing on low volume and mirrors on the ceiling?
(14) Instead of Elsie Tanner in a too-tight skirt, it had everybody in satin-sheeted beds with everybody else (by 1985, there must have been more chlamydia than oil in them thar fields).
(15) The cover displayed a logo patch sewn on to a black satin jacket, while the inner sleeve depicted a desk cluttered with adolescent artefacts, including a 1976 KISS poster and a Chic single sleeve.
(16) Freddie's wearing tight oyster-grey satin pants, an antique market cream satin blouse and a scarlet velvet Victorian bed jacket.
(17) From the first look – a black satin knee-length dress worn with scarlet boots – it felt late night and louche, ready for Berlin's nightclubs.
(18) The kidnappers' demands were ably investigated by the bride, imperturbable in ivory satin, though the list of suspects (a brisk resumé of all the Braithwaites' aggrieved lovers) made her reconsider matrimony.
(19) Or just, not coral satin pants with suspenders, like the ones Sam Cooke, 28, from Manchester, was wearing in the Sun last Friday?
(20) There can be few who stop and look at his 1880-81 Little Dancer Aged 14 , the bronze sculpture of the adolescent dancer who wears a gauzy fabric tutu and a satin ribbon tied to the cue of her bronze hair and not feel in the presence of a great and mysterious thing.
Taffeta
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Taffety
Example Sentences:
(1) Their clothes are the rewards of immaculate girlhood: dresses of taffeta and velvet with lace collars, petticoats, ankle straps, pocketbooks and initialled handkerchiefs, seasonal gloves of cotton and kid, matching coats and muffs.
(2) These materials were nylon taffeta (N), nylon taffeta-Goretex-nylon tricot laminated fabric (G), and polyvinylchloride-coated plain cotton fabric (V).
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A silk taffeta Balenciaga dress from 1955, with wired skirt flounces.
(4) According to a BBC report from the time, she wore a long black taffeta gown and had a meeting with Pope John Paul II that was described as "warm and relaxed".
(5) There was no repeat of her upbeat appeal just over a week earlier, when, dressed in a shimmering red taffeta jacket, she had urged Germans in a televised new year’s address accompanied by Arabic subtitles, to see refugees as an opportunity for the country.