sateen

A 19th century variant of satin, perhaps influenced by velveteen.

• IPA^(key): /səˈtiːn/

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• Hyphenation: sa‧teen

sateen (countable and uncountable, plural sateens)

1. A type of cotton cloth with a shiny surface and dull back, woven using the technique that, when applied to silk or nylon, results in cloth called satin.
   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 112:

     The elaboration of her sateen costume (somewhat dirty and torn now) showed that she was an optimate.

• satin

• “sateen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Santee, Senate, atenes, enates, ensate, senate, tenase

sateen

1. genitive singular of sade

• asteen, saneet, taseen