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Corn silk   /kɔrn sɪlk/   Listen
Corn silk

noun
1.
Each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn.  Synonym: cornsilk.






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"Corn silk" Quotes from Famous Books



... beet, A table and chairs were made out of roots, Supported in style by asparagus shoots. Lace curtains of spider webs, hung o'er the doors, And bumble bee skins were the rugs on the floors, Their dishes were all from the button weed made, Their knives and their forks from the tiny grass blade, Corn silk for their cushions, thistledown for a bed, "Our home will be royal," they boastingly said. They caught a black cricket and hollowed him out, For a crib the sweet baby must have, without doubt, And the cricket, his life, ought gladly to give, For "something must die, ...
— Nestlings - A Collection of Poems • Ella Fraser Weller



Words linked to "Corn silk" :   cornsilk, style



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