ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Silkenly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Silkenly is an adverb meaning In a silken manner.

Meaning

In a silken manner.

Example Sentences

[…] there was a rush of warm wind and I felt it on my face, felt it moving silkenly across my face […]
He appeared, hovering calf-eyed over a fragile and lovely creature whose skirts rustled silkenly as she moved.
This is not the doctrine, my friends, of the silkenly and lawnly religious; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman, and walks uprightly and straightforward under it.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include silkily, silverily, suavely, sleekly, softly, polishedly.

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