samite
A material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages.
countable, uncountable
[A] robe / Of samite without price, that more exprest / Than hid her, clung about her lissome limbs, / In colour like the satin-shining palm / On sallows in the windy gleams of March: [...]
Where it comes from
From Middle English samite, from Old French samit, from Medieval Latin samitum, examitum, from Byzantine Greek ἑξάμιτον (hexámiton), from ἕξ (héx, “six”) + μίτος (mítos, “thread”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry samite (CC BY-SA 4.0).