cornsilk

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So Gillibloom lay down on a very soft couch that was perhaps rose-leaves and perhaps thistledown and perhaps cornsilk, and when he had lain there a day and a night, the Earth-Woman stretched his mouth

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  1. each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn

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