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Silken   /sˈɪlkən/   Listen
adjective
Silken  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
2.
Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language. "Silken terms precise."
3.
Dressed in silk. "A... silken wanton."


verb
Silken  v. t.  To render silken or silklike.





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"Silken" Quotes from Famous Books



... In his silken robes, clean and bright, With his cap on his head, looking so respectful, From the hall he goes to the foot of the stairs, And (then) from the sheep to the oxen[1]. (He inspects) the tripods, large and small, ...
— The Shih King • James Legge
... see them come—the knights and ladies of my revel. Plumed and turbaned they come, clad in mail and silken broideries, gentle maids in Quaker gray, gay princes in scarlet cloaks, coquettes with roses in their hair, monks in cowls that might have covered the tall Minster Tower, demure little girls hugging paper ...
— The World I Live In • Helen Keller
... dominated every will in the process of his achievements, he who defiantly told his masters that he would not suffer his "feet to be entangled" by their amateurish absurdities, was entangled for a time by a rapturous infatuation and allowed a giddy woman with seductive habits and a silken voice to cajole, dominate, ridicule, and ignore him. His imploring theatrical appeals to her to come to him are piteously pathetic. The rational parts of his letters are without example in neat concise phrase, and portray a man possessed of great ...
— The Tragedy of St. Helena • Walter Runciman
... individual freedom which is on trial in battle with the Prussian system—and as one is going to bed the sound of guns in the heart of the city! From the window one looked upward to see, under a searchlight's play, the silken sheen of a cigar-shaped sort of aerial phantom which was dropping bombs on women and children, while never a shot is fired at ...
— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
... where I would fain have laid my head,—shoulders faintly rosy, which seemed to blush as if uncovered for the first time; modest shoulders, that possessed a soul, and reflected light from their satin surface as from a silken texture. These shoulders were parted by a line along which my eyes wandered. I raised myself to see the bust and was spell-bound by the beauty of the bosom, chastely covered with gauze, where blue-veined globes of perfect outline were softly hidden in waves of lace. The slightest details ...
— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac


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