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Sarcenet is Saracen stuff; tabby is named after a street in Baghdād where watered silk was made; Baldacchini are simply "Baldac," i.e., Baghdād, canopies; samite is Shāmī, "Syrian," fabric; the very coat of the Egyptian, the jubba, is preserved in giuppa, jupe. With the loss of her Oriental commerce, which the hostility of the Turks involved, Venice could no longer hold her own.
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