Samite
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Samite may refer to :
- The Ugandan-American musician Samite Mulondo.
- A Liberty ship
- A heavy silk fabric, of a twill-type weave, worn in the Middle Ages. The word was derived from the Latin hexamitum, which indicated the use of six varying yarns. [1] It was famously referred to in the poem The Passing of Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, part of his Idylls of the King cycle. "[A]n arm clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful" caught Arthur's sword when it was flung into the lake as he lay dying. This was referenced, too, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
[edit] References
- ^ Donald King in Jonathan Alexander & Paul Binski (eds.), Age of Chivalry, Art in Plantagenet England, 1200–1400, p.157. Royal Academy/Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 1987. ISBN 0297791907.
