2026

Silken

//ˈsɪlkən//

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adj

1
Made of silk.
a silken veil
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silk seric
2
Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly
Come then youth, Beauty, and Blood, all ye soft powers, / Whose silken flatteryes swell a few fond houres.
3
Dressed in silk.
[S]hall a beardless boy, / A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?

1
To render silken or silklike.
silkening body lotion

Word Origin

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...

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