Silken

/ˈsɪlkən/ · adjective

Meaning

Made of silk..

Definitions by Sense

1. Made of silk.
2. Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly
3. Dressed in silk.
4. (transitive) To render silken or silklike.

Example Sentences

a silken veil

Last Saturday was three Weeks, at Two, in the Afternoon, I sent out my Servant, to watch a Couple of these Silken Strollers, and keep, if possible, within Ken of them.

[S]hall a beardless boy, / A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?

Yet though he cannot skip forth now to greet / Every fine silken painted foole we meet, / He then to him with amorous smiles allures,

[…] the Viceroy moved magnificently through India, resplendent with all the colour and dash of the vast Empire at his feet, with his superb bodyguard jangling scarlet beside his carriage, silken Indian princes bowing at his carpet, generals quivering at the salute and ceremonial salutes of thirty-one guns […]

silkening body lotion

Or, if your sheep are of Silurian breed, Nightly to house them dry on fern or straw, Silk’ning their fleeces.

[…] these lights silkened her black skin:

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Word Forms

• silkens
• silkening
• silkened

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