satin

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).

   “Ibn Batuta informs us that a rich silk texture made here was called Zaitûniya; and there can be little doubt that this is the real origin of our word Satin,—Zettani in mediæval Italian, Aceytuni in Spanish.”

2. isim Gin (the drink).

   “'This poor gal was robbed, barely left a stitch, that and the drink... mind, I likes a drop of satin – wot you'd call gin – myself. I'll say nothing against it. She ended thrown out of an upstairs winder.'”

3. sıfat Semigloss.

   “satin paint”

4. fiil To make (paper, silver, etc.) smooth and glossy like satin.