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silkenly

silkenly adverb: in a silken manner.

Adverb

silkenly (comparative more silkenly, superlative most silkenly)

  1. In a silken manner.
    • This is not the doctrine, my friends, of the silkenly and lawnly religious; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman, and walks uprightly and straightforward under it.1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, London: Saunders & Otley, page 155
    • He appeared, hovering calf-eyed over a fragile and lovely creature whose skirts rustled silkenly as she moved.1939, Edna Ferber, chapter 9, in A Peculiar Treasure, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., page 145

Forms of silkenly

comparativemore silkenly
superlativemost silkenly

Origin of silkenly

From silken + -ly.

Questions about silkenly

What does silkenly mean?
Silkenly means in a silken manner.
What part of speech is silkenly?
Silkenly is an adverb.

Words near silkenly in the dictionary

  1. silken tofu
  2. silken tofus
  3. Silken Windhound
  4. silkened
  5. silkening
  6. silkenly
  7. silkens
  8. silker
  9. silkers
  10. silkes
  11. silkette

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