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Silken
Definitions
- 1 Made of silk. not-comparable
"a silken veil"
- 2 Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly; Having a smooth, soft, or light texture. not-comparable
"Come then youth, Beauty, and Blood, all ye soft powers, / Whose silken flatteryes swell a few fond houres."
- 3 Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly; Having a smooth, soft, or flowing utterance; attractive or (typically derogatory) convincing through pleasing expression. figuratively, not-comparable
"Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer-flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:"
- 4 Dressed in silk. not-comparable
"[S]hall a beardless boy, / A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?"
- 1 having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk wordnet
- 1 To render silken or silklike. transitive
"silkening body lotion"
Etymology
From Middle English silken, selken, seolkene, from Old English seolcen, from seolc (“silk”) + -en, from an unattested early Proto-West Germanic borrowing from Latin sēricum, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). Equivalent to silk + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots selkin, silkin (“silken”), Icelandic silki (“silken”).
From Middle English silken, selken, seolkene, from Old English seolcen, from seolc (“silk”) + -en, from an unattested early Proto-West Germanic borrowing from Latin sēricum, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). Equivalent to silk + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots selkin, silkin (“silken”), Icelandic silki (“silken”).
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