Definition of Silk

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Definition of Silk

Silk

The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori.

Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material.

That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.

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Silk Quotations

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
Joseph Stalin

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.
Eli Wallach

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Ted Rall

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
Abraham Cahan

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.
Michael Gambon

I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.
Alexandra Paul

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
Jane Birkin

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
Hamlin Garland

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
Raquel Welch

Silk Translations

silk in Danish is silke
silk in Dutch is zijde, zij
silk in French is soie
silk in German is Seide, Seiden-
silk in Hungarian is selyem
silk in Italian is seta
silk in Norwegian is silke
silk in Portuguese is seda
silk in Spanish is seda
silk in Swedish is silke, siden

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