SILKEN


Meaning of SILKEN in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The prince was dressed in red silken robes.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He undressed and slipped into the bed beside her, her body warm and naked beneath the silken sheets.

I was thirty and single, and a handsome, older man loved me and brought me silken presents and poetry.

One had fine gold silken hair, faded and grey with the dust.

The silken thread tying her to home had parted, and there was no turning back.

The room contained a piano, some books bound in morocco and others with velvet and silken bindings and gold-leafed edges.

The Shadow rides superbly too, soft and silken , smothering the road surface but without feeling ponderous.

Then, after attaining elevation, they launch themselves into space, rappelling down a silken thread of their own making.

They simply spin a silken sling to attach themselves to a twig.

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