adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The prince was dressed in red silken robes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He undressed and slipped into the bed beside her, her body warm and naked beneath the silken sheets.
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I was thirty and single, and a handsome, older man loved me and brought me silken presents and poetry.
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One had fine gold silken hair, faded and grey with the dust.
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The silken thread tying her to home had parted, and there was no turning back.
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The room contained a piano, some books bound in morocco and others with velvet and silken bindings and gold-leafed edges.
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The Shadow rides superbly too, soft and silken , smothering the road surface but without feeling ponderous.
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Then, after attaining elevation, they launch themselves into space, rappelling down a silken thread of their own making.
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They simply spin a silken sling to attach themselves to a twig.