silken

Meanings

Adjective

• Made of silk.
• Having a smooth, soft, or light texture, like that of silk; suggestive of silk.
• Smoothly uttered; flowing, subtle, or convincing in presentation.
• Dressed in silk.

Verb

• To render silken or silklike.

Related

Similar words

• seric

Origin

• From Middle English silken, selken, seolkene, from Old English seolcen, equivalent to silk + -en. Cognate with Scots selkin, silkin, Icelandic silki ("silken").