(n) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum, Syn.shamisen
n. [ Turk. sam-yeli; Ar. samm poison + Turk. yel wind. Cf. Simoom. ] A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ OF. samit, LL. samitum, examitum, from LGr. &unr_;, &unr_; woven with six threads; Gr. &unr_; six + &unr_; a thread. See Six, and cf. Dimity. ] A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
In silken samite she was light arrayed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
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