Sa″mite (?), a. [OF. samit, LL. samitum, examitum, from LGr. �, � woven with six threads; Gr. � six + � a thread. See Six, and cf. Dimity.] A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold. Tennyson.
In silken samite she was light arrayed. Spenser.