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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



... she who would tire of him, and that another would appear two or three years hence who would appeal to her sensual imagination just as he did to-day. She would strive to resist it, she would argue with herself, but the enticing illusion would draw her as in a silken net. He was now engaged in the destruction of her moral scruples—in other words, making the way easy for ...
— Evelyn Innes • George Moore
... father will dub him knight on the morrow after Mass—but says that he will prove himself coward or hero in another land than his own. "If you will grant my boon in that matter in which I have asked you; then give me fur both grey and of divers colour and good steeds and silken attire; for before I am knight I will fain serve King Arthur. Not yet have I so great valour that I can bear arms. None by entreaty or by fair words could persuade me not to go into the foreign land to see the king and his barons, whose renown for courtesy and for prowess is so great. ...
— Cliges: A Romance • Chretien de Troyes
... masters that he would not suffer his "feet to be entangled" by their amateurish absurdities, was entangled for a time by a rapturous infatuation and allowed a giddy woman with seductive habits and a silken voice to cajole, dominate, ridicule, and ignore him. His imploring theatrical appeals to her to come to him are piteously pathetic. The rational parts of his letters are without example in neat concise phrase, and portray a man possessed of great human virtues. It is when the love-storm ...
— The Tragedy of St. Helena • Walter Runciman
... was given a place at the table of the king, and the two sat there and ate and stared at each other, but spoke not a word. And Cercyon, as he looked at the young man's sharp eyes and his fair face and silken hair, had half a mind to bid him go in peace and seek not to test his strength and skill. But when they had finished, Theseus arose and laid aside his sword and his sandals and his iron club, and stripped himself of his robes, ...
— Old Greek Stories • James Baldwin
... select one of the silken curtains, which I could divide longwise, and tie the ends together. They would be quite enough to enable me to reach the ground; and there was a ring on one side of the window strong enough to bear ...
— Gil the Gunner - The Youngest Officer in the East • George Manville Fenn


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