Silkily

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a silky manner.

    "Gerty's were of the bluest Irish blue, set off by lustrous lashes and dark expressive brows. Time was when those brows were not so silkily seductive"

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a silky manner wordnet

Example

More examples

"The yard was quite dark as they turned into it and the poplar leaves were rustling silkily all round it."

Etymology

From silky + -ly.

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