silkenly
advEtymology From silken + -ly.
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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:
- 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:
1 more example
- […] 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: