Saye is a woollen cloth woven in the west and south of England in and around the 15th and 16th centuries. A suburb of Bristol, England is called Sea Mills, this was originally Saye Mills.
Samuel Pepys on June 21, 1661, s:Diary of Samuel Pepys/1661/Junerecorded purchasing "green Say ... for curtains in my parler".
A related sort of cloth was serica, which was finer, since it also contained silk.
Famous quotes containing the word saye:
“Where can ye saye in any manere age
That hye God defended mariage
By expres word? I praye you, telleth me.
Or where comanded he virginitee?”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)