Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Silkiness: used humorously, simulating such titles as “your highness,” to imply luxuriousness, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Silkiness.
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- noun obsolete
silkiness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even Pestilence didn't resist the temptation to feel its silkness.
Supernatural: Two Minutes to Midnight - Pink Raygun.com 2010
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On Lady Juliana the woman would have been apostrophized as a quiz, for she was very grand in a vulgar sort of way—red-and-black striped dress, a red shawl with a long fringe proclaiming its silkness, shoes with high heels and glittering buckles, and a monstrous black velvet hat on her head nodding red ostrich plumes.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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On Lady Juliana the woman would have been apostrophized as a quiz, for she was very grand in a vulgar sort of way—red-and-black striped dress, a red shawl with a long fringe proclaiming its silkness, shoes with high heels and glittering buckles, and a monstrous black velvet hat on her head nodding red ostrich plumes.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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He tossed a blue Gor-Tex jacket at me, his size, which meant it would cover most of my beigey silkness.
Confession Nancy Pickard 1994
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He tossed a blue Gor-Tex jacket at me, his size, which meant it would cover most of my beigey silkness.
Confession Nancy Pickard 1994
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He tossed a blue Gor-Tex jacket at me, his size, which meant it would cover most of my beigey silkness.
Confession Nancy Pickard 1994
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Truly there was a mass of it, and it was of beautiful silkness and softness.
The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley Laura Lee Hope
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