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Silkiness

noun
1.
The smooth feel of silk fabric.  Synonym: sleekness.





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"Silkiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... was still more shaded by the masses of her golden hair, that seemed to form a nest-like pillar for her as she lay. Her father in fond pride straightened one glossy curl, for an instant, as if to display its length and silkiness. ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... "Barbados Green Bitters." It is a most comforting local cocktail, apparently quite innocuous. It is not; under its silkiness it is abominably potent. One "green bitter" is food, ...
— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton


Words linked to "Silkiness" :   silky, smoothness


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