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silkness

silkness noun: silkiness.

Noun

silkness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) silkiness
    • your silknesse Clearly mistakes Mecænas and his house1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in...
    • The imperious duchess had the eyes of a dove, and the mouth of a child; and the hair had that soft glossy silkness which I fancy usually belongs to a gentle and sensitive temperament.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXVI. Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 237

Origin of silkness

From silk + -ness.

Questions about silkness

What does silkness mean?
Silkness means silkiness.
What part of speech is silkness?
Silkness is a noun.

Words near silkness in the dictionary

  1. silkman
  2. silkmapin
  3. silkmen
  4. silkmoth
  5. silkmoths
  6. silkness
  7. silkoline
  8. silkolines
  9. silkpost
  10. silkposted
  11. silkposting

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