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Definition of Silken
Silken
Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.

Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.

Dressed in silk.

To render silken or silklike.

Related Definitions:
As, Cloth, Delicate, Dressed, Fig, In, Language, Made, Of, Or, Pertaining, Render, Resembling, Silk, Silken, Smooth, Soft, Tender, To, Veil






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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Joseph Hall



Silken Translations
silken in German is seiden, seidenweich, seidenweiche
silken in Spanish is de seda


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