| 词汇 | satin |
| 词源 | satin. One might expect this smooth, glossy fabric to have a glamorous story behind its name, but it was apparently a place name originally. Arab traders named it zaituni, “cloth from Za- itun,” this last word their name for the Chinese city of Zayton (now called Chuanzhou). |
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