Silken
['sɪlk(ə)n] or ['sɪlkən]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
(a.) Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.
(a.) Dressed in silk.
(v. t.) To render silken or silklike.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Silky.
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Examples
- In the grasp of his hand her chin was unutterably soft and silken. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A gay laugh from the court rang through the silken curtains of the verandah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You will find the just sum in a silken purse within the leathern pouch, and separate from the rest of the gold. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But it was as if he had had knowledge of her in the long red rent of her forearm, so silken and soft. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His hair, which absolutely grew in full ringlets, was of the very finest silken quality. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The gondolier is a picturesque rascal for all he wears no satin harness, no plumed bonnet, no silken tights. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Some agitated movement occasioned a twitch of the silken chain. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Marie disposed herself on a lounge, under a silken mosquito curtain, and was soon sound asleep. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The woman, without answering, pushed her pail aside, and continued to stare as Miss Bart swept by with a murmur of silken linings. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The emperor lays on the table three fine silken threads of six inches long; one is blue, the other red, and the third green. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Well said Wamba, that silken bonnet keeps out no steel blade. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The ivy and the moss crept in thick clusters over the old trees, and the soft green turf overspread the ground like a silken mat. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They had brought along the costly globe lamps from their drawing-rooms, and the lace and silken curtains from the same places, I suppose. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Here were no jewels, no head-dressesno velvet pile or silken sheen purity, simplicity, and a?rial grace reigned in that virgin band. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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