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silkwork

silkwork noun: goods or products manufactured from silk.

Noun

silkwork (uncountable)

  1. Goods or products manufactured from silk
    • The tax on silkwork and silk-dyeing in Fustat brought 334 dinars per year.1967, A Mediterranean Society: The family

Origin of silkwork

From Middle English silkewerk, sylkewerke, selkwerk, sylke work, equivalent to silk + work.

Questions about silkwork

What does silkwork mean?
Silkwork means goods or products manufactured from silk.
What part of speech is silkwork?
Silkwork is a noun.

Words near silkwork in the dictionary

  1. silkweeds
  2. silkwoman
  3. silkwomen
  4. Silkwood
  5. Silkwoods
  6. silkwork
  7. silkworks
  8. silkworm
  9. silkworm moth
  10. silkworm moths
  11. silkworms

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