silken
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4.3
- adjective
- /ˈsɪlkən/
- The dress was made of a silken fabric that shimmered in the light.
- silken threads
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- Even the young woman taking a silken dress out of a box looks away and looks away when I see her holding in her hand a little black shoe.
- What blind, gnawing, mandibled head was chewing up the silken thread we thought would guide us back to bed?
Examples
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His kitchen is filled with silken houseplants made to look real and hung out of reach.
Fiction book (1997) -
The ministers in their silken mantles all seemed slightly awed by their own sublime importance.
Fiction book (1993) -
To the fair hair on her silken belly.
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- Feel its silken flesh.
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The surface, shiny and silken.
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That silken red hair.
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Her tresses were almost silken in their length and lightness, and quite clean.
Fiction book (1994) -
"…she sits in the silken boudoir of her house…"
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The p59 moonlight washed cool over her silken hair and down across her sculpted legs.
Fiction book (1992) -
I've never seen such a profusion of silken draperies, porcelain knickknacks, and embroidered pillows.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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1.0
Smooth and soft to touch like fine cloth
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3.2
A smooth, shiny fabric often made from silk or man-made thread
12
3.8
Smooth and very soft in touch, look, sound, or taste
12
3.5
Smooth and shiny like silk or polished wood
3
4.1
Smooth and soft with a shiny surface like silk
1
3.7
Having a smooth, soft, and shiny feel like fine cloth
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Etymology
The word silken comes from silk, the soft fabric, plus the ending -en, like in wooden, meaning 'made of' or 'having'. So, silken means 'made of silk' or 'very smooth like silk'.