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adjective

Silky adj. (compar. silkier; superl. silkiest)

Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.

Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.

Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.

Silky oak (Bot.), a lofty Australian tree (Grevillea robusta) with silky tomentose lobed or incised leaves. It furnishes a valuable timber.

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Etymology of 'Silky'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Silky" Quotes from Famous Books

... angelic; her large, sad blue eyes have a deep, sweet and confiding expression; her dark eyebrows are penciled with unequaled purity on her forehead, white and reposeful as if in deep thought, and the bright, silky hair, somewhat tossed, throws a shadow on it, of which, not only Master Harvey, but a certain other painter, named Rembrandt, would not have been ashamed. The girl at once reminds you of Cinderella and Gretchen, and the leaning ...

— Sielanka: An Idyll • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... of this isolated, wood-environed retreat was its complete absence of all kinds of growth, except for a sort of silky grass which covered its uneven surface like a rich carpet of the deepest green tint. Near the centre was an oval elevation of rock and earth higher by a few feet than knobs and miniature hills ...

— Jack North's Treasure Hunt - Daring Adventures in South America • Roy Rockwood

... the ladies were not less shattered. They had no triumph in their victory: the weight of it bore them down. They closed, locked, shot the bolts and fastened the chain of the door. They had to be reminded by the shaking of their darling dog Tasso's curly silky coat, that he had not taken his evening's trot to notify malefactors of his watchfulness and official wrath at sound of footfall or a fancied one. Without consultation, they unbolted the door, and Tasso ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... and distrust which he had never felt before. Miss Gwendolen, simple as she stood there, in her black silk, cut square about the round white pillar of her throat, a black band fastening her hair which streamed backward in smooth silky abundance, seemed more queenly than usual. Perhaps it was that there was none of the latent fun and tricksiness which had always pierced in her greeting of Rex. How much of this was due to her presentiment from what he had said yesterday that he was going to talk of love? How much ...

— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot

... sweeter fresher maid Than this in homely cotton, Whose pleasant face and silky braid I have ...

— Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti

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