Crossword clues for silken
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Silken \Silk"en\, a. [AS. seolcen, seolocen.]
Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language. ``Silken terms precise.''
--Shak.Dressed in silk. ``A . . . silken wanton.''
--Shak.
Silken \Silk"en\, v. t.
To render silken or silklike.
--Dyer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English seolcen "made of silk;" see silk + -en (2). Meaning "silk-like, soft and glossy" is from 1510s.
Wiktionary
1 Made of silk. 2 Having a smooth, soft, or light texture, like that of silk; suggestive of silk. 3 (context figuratively of speech, singing, oratory, etc. English) smoothly uttered; flowing, subtle, or convincing in presentation. 4 (context obsolete English) Dressed in silk. v
(context transitive English) To render silken or silklike.
WordNet
Usage examples of "silken".
Covering him from the waist down, they had laid a pall of Haldane crimson worked with the royal arms, supple with silken embroidery and applique, spilling off the sides and end of the bier and over the shoulders of the knights at that end.
The Shandorian reached into her scarlet silken sleeve, produced a sueded pouch, offered it to Bardel with a small obeisance.
Faith had kicked off the covers as usual, and the red T-shirt she wore was twisted up around her waist, baring a silken belly and tiny white panties.
Maud, however, without a hat of any sort, her long, luxuriant, silken, golden tresses covering her shoulders, and occasionally veiling her warm, rich cheek, was exercising with a battledore, keeping Little Smash, now increased in size to quite fourteen stone, rather actively employed as an assistant, whenever the exuberance of her own spirits caused her to throw the plaything beyond her reach.
He gestured to the nearest bedin and then turned and strode out through the silken hangings, his white robes billowing behind him, a sickly frightened girl hurrying in his wake.
The steel points of pikes flamed red with sunlight, as if already blooded, while the pavilions of the knights and high lords sprouted from the grass like silken mushrooms.
In a clearing, a garlanded courtesan of the Kauchique littoral danced the Dance of the Fourteen Silken Movements to the musk of flutes.
In a little cleared space a garlanded courtesan of the Kauchique littoral danced the Dance of the Fourteen Silken Movements to the music of flutes.
So he sold to a Jewish merchant in the Mellah the couches and great chairs which he had bought out of England, as well as the carpets from Rabat, the silken hangings from Fez, and the purple canopies from Morocco city.
Beyond the half-open curtain, murder glared up at him luridly: on the floor sprawled Favian, shirtless, his kilted, cavalry-booted legs tangled in a silken bedcover, his face and bared chest kissing the crimson pool outspread from his slashed throat.
On hands and knees at times, he nosed along waterways and peering overside into the silken blackness of the smooth sea.
Next, making for a particular spot on the wall, she selected one of the palmettes in the plaster moulding and pressed it, whereupon a section of the green silken panelling slid aside to reveal a metal safe.
The silken shroud of the parafoil had draped itself across the slope ahead of the ship.
By this heaven, I wonder at nothing more than our gentlemen ushers, that will suffer a piece of serge or perpetuana to come into the presence: methinks they should, out of their experience, better distinguish the silken disposition of courtiers, than to let such terrible coarse rags mix with us, able to fret any smooth or gentle society to the threads with their rubbing devices.
The girl wore only two garments beside her sandals--a silken sampot and the makeshift sarong--so that scarcely was King out of sight before she was splashing in the cold waters of the stream.