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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



... other, while Mrs. Yu, widow Li Wan, lady Feng and the rest presented the soup and handed the cups. The Imperial consort Yuan subsequently directed that the pencils and inkslabs should be brought, and with her own hands she opened the silken paper. She chose the places she liked, and conferred upon them a name; and devising a general designation for the garden, she called it the Ta Kuan garden (Broad vista), while for the tablet of the main pavilion the device she composed ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... his romance by the municipal virtues of justice, punctuality, fidelity and pity. I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display, by rides in a curricle and dinners at the best taverns. The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined; more strict than any of which we have experience. It is for aid and ...
— Essays, First Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... he came to where his brothers were, he mounted his horse, and they all started afresh. They rode and rode; presently they saw before them a green meadow, and on that meadow lay silken cushions. Then the elder brothers said, "Let's turn out our horses to graze here, while we rest ...
— Russian Fairy Tales - A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore • W. R. S. Ralston
... he watches the pretty foot, in its hideous disguise of patched, worn, ill-fitting leather, and he sees it as on the first day of their meeting, in its gleaming slipper and dainty silken stocking. ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... fairest flower, no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken Primrose fading timelesslie; Summer's chief honour, if thou hadst outlasted Bleak winter's force that ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe


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