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silken

/sil-kuhn/US // ˈsɪl kən //UK // (ˈsɪlkən) //

丝质,丝质的,丝滑的,丝滑

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : made of silk.
    • : like silk in smoothness, softness, glossiness, or delicateness.
    • : clad in silk.
    • : smoothly persuasive or ingratiating; mellifluous: the senator's silken oratory.
    • : elegant; luxurious.

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Examples

  • In a nutso glamour montage, she swirls around the house and its environs in a series of silken gowns and chic daytime ensembles, the camera fluttering around her like a wounded swan.

  • Is that scratchy rug atop her head really meant to be Kate's famously silken locks?

  • One is the “silken cord” solution favored by Ottoman sultans.

  • Strange to say, the silken cord yielded to the first pull, as if nothing had been wrong with it at all!

  • Between the green and gold folds of his silken handkerchief his gentle brown eyes always regarded her.

  • "You spoke of disgrace," she observed gently, swaying her fan before her by its silken cord.

  • Frivolity enveloped the company as with a silken veil, and yet everything moved as politely and as sedately as a minuet.

  • The little shoe, whose silken laces had become loose in walking, lay in the road covered-with dust.