Sekirov Dictionary

silken

/ˈsɪlkən/

adjective 6
verb 1
forms 3

adjective6

Made of silk.
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Having a smooth, soft, or light texture.
- [L]ove is not to be bought, in any sense of the vvords, its silken vvings are instantly shrivelled up vvhen any thing beside a return in kind is sought. — 1791
Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike.
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Suave.
- […] an admired silken-mannered gentleman in society, a tolerable polecat at home […] — 1923
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(figurative) Having a smooth, soft, or flowing utterance; attractive or (typically derogatory) convincing through pleasing expression.
- Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer-flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation: — 1595
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Dressed in silk.
- [S]hall a beardless boy, / A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]? — 1596

verb1

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To render silken or silklike.
- Or, if your sheep are of Silurian breed, Nightly to house them dry on fern or straw, Silk’ning their fleeces. — 1757

forms

silkened · silkening · silkens

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