A cloth said to be so called from Damietta, in Egypt, but really from the Greek di-mitos (double-thread). (See Samite.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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