Spanish

Noun

aceytuni

1. (obsolete) Synonym of raso: satin.
   • 1641, Gerónimo de Blancas, Coronaciones de los serenissimos reyes de Aragon:

     […] e otra de aceytuni carmesi, e las bocas de las mangas con vnas trenzas de oro, anchas encima brosladas con aljofar […]

Alternative forms

• aceituní

References

1. 1 2 "satin, n. (and adj.)" in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1909.
2. ↑ E.g., Henry Yule's "Chinchew" entry for the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., 1878.
3. ↑ Kauz, Ralph. Aspects of the Maritime Silk Road, p. 145.

1. 1878, Henry Yule, "Chinchew" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, p. 673:

   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.