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Silkiness   Listen
noun
Silkiness  n.  
1.
The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.
2.
Fig.: Effeminacy; weakness. (R.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Silkiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... helped Arsinoe to arrange her dress and Selene's, and was never weary of praising the sheen and silkiness of Arsinoe's hair, while she twisted it with ribbons, built it up and twisted it at the back so gracefully with a comb, that it fell in a thick mass of artfully-curled locks down her neck and back. ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... tones, that search out the sorrow at the heart of things. It is worthy, in its power, of the praise of Browning, Swinburne, Theodore Watts, Gerald Massey. It is Edward Fitz Gerald minus the vine and the rose, and ali Persian silkiness. The problem he sets out to solve, and he solves it by a petitio ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann


Words linked to "Silkiness" :   smoothness, silky


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