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