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Noun: silk serge
  1. A twilled silk fabric used mostly for lining parts of gentlemen's coats.
    "The early association of silk serge, Greece, and France is shown by the discovery in Charlemagne's tomb of a piece of silk serge dyed with Byzantine motifs, evidently a gift from the Byzantine Imperial Court in the 8th or 9th century AD."

Type of: cloth, fabric, material, textile