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A smooth, shiny type of cloth, usually shiny on one side and dull on the other. People use it for things that should look elegant or a little fancy, like wedding dresses, ribbons, or pajamas.
緞、緞面布料
組成Probably named after Zaitun, an old name for the Chinese port city of Quanzhou, where this cloth was once traded - though the exact history isn't fully certain.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
satinnoun/ˈsæt.ɪn/
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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.
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obsoleteslangGin (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.'
satinadj/ˈsæt.ɪn/
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Semigloss.
- satin paint
satinverb/ˈsæt.ɪn/
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To make (paper, silver, etc.) smooth and glossy like satin.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。