sateen
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7.4
- noun
- /səˈtin/
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sateen
- She then hastily dried her eyes with a wadded handkerchief trimmed in blue tatting and smoothed the skirts of her prim brown sateen dress.
- cotton sateen
- sateen jacket
- sateen dress
Examples
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The bedstead was iron, painted white, and the coverlet was cream-colored sateen, threadbare but still pretty.
Fiction book (2002) -
The ball was violet sateen, off the shoulders, with frothy lace cuffs to conceal my cracked fingers.
Fiction book (1994) -
>> I have these two whites and I'm not gonna use all of them, but one's a cotton sateen and this is another type of cotton.
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The robe, which is sateen, has a flower-and-fruit motif.
Fiction book (1999) -
Ashamed that I had confessed my secret longings, I fell silent, running my fingers over the low-quality sateen of my gown.
Fiction book (1994) -
The table was covered in a beautiful sateen cloth that shimmered under the light.
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She decided to buy new curtains made from soft sateen fabric for the living room.
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For her wedding dress, she chose a stunning sateen material that flowed elegantly.
Synonyms
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3.2
A smooth, shiny fabric often made from silk or man-made thread
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9.9
A cloth that looks shiny like satin but is made from cotton or man-made fiber
A smooth shiny cloth like satin made from cotton or man-made fibers
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
The word sateen comes from satin with the ending -een, so the name means 'like satin'. It refers to a cotton cloth woven to look smooth and shiny, just like satin.