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Meanings of sateen in English

Russian
сатин
Spanish
satén
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Smooth, lustrous satin-weave fabric made of spun fiber, usually cotton, rather than filment yarn.

        сатин
        Usage of sateen in English
        1
        The costume is made of glossy sateen; the sandals of canton flannel.
        Games for All Occasions
        2
        The green sofa and its sateen cushions were stiff with applied embroidery.
        The Old Wives' Tale
        3
        The department store's bed-linen reductions include the range's pure cotton sateen collection.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Of these details the first is that the sateen lining should be black.
        In the Riding-School; Chats with Esmeralda
        5
        He wore the oddest vest and trousers of rose-pink sateen plaided with purple.
        The Spanish Chest
        6
        Quickly she collapsed, her sateen hanging in loose, ragged strips.
        The Poor Little Rich Girl
        7
        Soon again she came back, carrying some folds of black sateen over her arm.
        The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
        8
        The Larkins sisters had done wonders with grey sateen.
        The History of Mr. Polly
        9
        My first was a figured sateen, a buff-colored ground with red flowers thrown over it.
        A Young Mutineer
        10
        The vanilla sateen quilted bedspread sets a decadent tone.
        The Irish Times
        11
        And now Gwendolyn, astonished, saw that too much laughter had again remolded that sateen bulk.
        The Poor Little Rich Girl
        12
        Reluctantly, she stretched her leg across the sateen sheets.
        Blood Rights
        13
        A black sateen spread covered the mattress, and a leopard-skin hanging served as a headboard.
        Devil Bones
        14
        The sateen is for church and Sunday school.
        Anne of Green Gables
        15
        Even her large, shiny, shapeless boots and the coarse sateen stuff of her dress affected him.
        The Roll-Call
        16
        Her air of hauteur was a triumph, considering that she was handicapped by black sateen sleevelets.
        Buttered Side Down: Stories
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        Russian
        сатин
        Sateen through the time