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Sleekness

noun
1.
The quality of being well-groomed and neatly tailored.
2.
The smooth feel of silk fabric.  Synonym: silkiness.






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"Sleekness" Quotes from Famous Books



... by contact with the Ambulance Corps, a noisy, breezy group. A boy scout pulled his boots off and on for him, oiled his machine, and cranked his motor. The lean cheeks filled out, the restless, audacious, roving eyes tamed down. A sleekness settled over his whole person. It was like discovering a hungry, prowling night cat, homeless and winning its meat by combat, and bringing that cat to the fireside and supplying it with copious cream, and watching it fill out ...
— Young Hilda at the Wars • Arthur Gleason



Words linked to "Sleekness" :   smoothness, appearance, visual aspect, sleek



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