They make good taffetas, sarcenet, and silk serges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference

Two streamers of sarcenet, one blue, the other green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference

Violet timorously asked, What about the bale of silk sarcenet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dressmaker] Reference

Stitch a piece of silk or sarcenet on a wooden frame with tacks or thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

A "cross-cloth" of green sarcenet, with the Assumption of Our Lady in gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference

The crown is neatly lined with white Persian, and strings of sarcenet added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exercises in Knitting] Reference

Fustian and taffeta were less costly, but frequently used in important work, as also were sarcenet and camora.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference

She was wearing a high-waisted gown of blond net over daffodil-yellow sarcenet and looked as fresh and lovely as the springtime.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Night for Love]

In one I find a slip of thick blue silk cloth, of a texture like sarcenet, beneath which is written, 'The above is a piece of the Prince's garter.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

The tester and ceiler also shining cloth of gold; the curtains of white sarcenet; as for his head-suit and pillows, they were of the Queen's own ordonnance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

The young woman was dressed in a lovely gown of white crepe spotted with white satin over a sarcenet slip, trimmed at the neck and sleeves with wreaths of black silk flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laird Who Loved Me] Reference

Hunting in sarcenet, without cloak and without a man!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

After supper the sarcenet was brought in; it was to be used for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt] Reference

"I've laid by a pretty piece of sarcenet of which to make you a capuchin," she said promptly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audrey] Reference

After the usual compliments, I gave her the two pieces of sarcenet she had commissioned me to get.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Well, I must be away -- I've to go to Cranbrook of an errand for Mother; she lacks a sarcenet coif.    From Wordnik.com.  [All's Well Alice's Victory] Reference

My Cousin Dolly was very pretty in her grey sarcenet, with her little pearls, and her hair dressed in a new fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oddsfish!] Reference

A thin cloth cape or mantle or spencer, lined with sarcenet silk, was frequently the only covering for the shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

And they thus both being agreed, habited as a page in green sarcenet, her buskins of the smoothest kid-skin, and her rapier of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Champions of Christendom] Reference

After supper the sarcenet was brought in; it was to be used for a dress with hoops, made after the extravagant fashion then prevailing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

She ordered two robes each of five ells, the one to be of green and lined with either cendal or sarcenet, and the other to be of brunet stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Figures of Earth] Reference

She then put on a corset and asked her sister to draw a sarcenet coverlet over her, as her limbs could be seen as plainly as through a crape veil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

As soon as We were alone he begged me to say that he had paid me the three hundred Milanese crowns for the sarcenet, if the countess asked me about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

The caps were made of sarcenet, a distinctive colour for each grade, the cap being gathered upon the crown in the shape of a bag with a border attached.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk, thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's purse, thou?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Troilus and Cressida] Reference

Elvira was seated on the throne, ambitiously arrayed in a bright scarlet Canton crape frock, and a white sarcenet scarf fantastically thrown over her shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New England tale, and Miscellanies] Reference

I stocked the warehouse with three hundred pieces of sarcenet and camlet of different shades and colours to receive the designs, and I paid for everything in ready money.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

I was invited by Count A---- B---- to Milan, and the countess wrote me a charming letter, begging me to get her two pieces of sarcenet, of which she enclosed the patterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

In a quarter of an hour the count told me that he owed me a lot of money, which he hoped to pay back in the course of Lent, and that I must add the sarcenet to the account.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Purple, red, and blue bonnets were numerous, with bunches of cocks 'feathers; and one had on an Arcadian hat of green sarcenet, turned up in front to show her cap underneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trumpet-Major] Reference

And giv'st such sarcenet surety for thy oaths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

And givest such sarcenet surety for thy oaths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Part of King Henry IV] Reference

And giv’st such sarcenet surety for thy oaths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act III. Scene I. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference

11. sarcenet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference

Some rose-colored sarcenet, for linings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6] Reference

"Anne," said Dolly, "did you pack the sarcenet?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Oddsfish!] Reference