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silkenly en · ADV

Etymology

From silken + -ly.

Meanings

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:
   • […] there was a rush of warm wind and I felt it on my face, felt it moving silkenly across my face […] 1969, Chaim Potok, chapter 16, in The Promise, New York: Knopf Doubleday, published 2012, page 359:
   • 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:

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