silken
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To render silken or silklike.
— silkening body lotion
形容词 adj.
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Made of silk.
— a silken veil
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Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly; Having a smooth, soft, or light texture.
— [L]ove is not to be bought, in any ſenſe of the vvords, its ſilken vvings are inſtantly ſhrivelled up vvhen any thing beſide a return in kind is ſought.
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Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly; Suave.
— […] an admired silken-mannered gentleman in society, a tolerable polecat at home […]
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Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly; Having a smooth, soft, or flowing utterance; attractive or (typically derogatory) convincing through pleasing expression.
— Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer-flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:
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Dressed in silk.
— [S]hall a beardless boy, / A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?
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词源 1
From Middle English silken, selken, seolkene, from Old English seolcen, from seolc (“silk”) + -en, from an unattested early Proto-West Germanic borrowing from Latin sēricum, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). Equivalent to silk + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots selkin, silkin (“silken”), Icelandic silki (“silken”).
词源 2
From Middle English silken, selken, seolkene, from Old English seolcen, from seolc (“silk”) + -en, from an unattested early Proto-West Germanic borrowing from Latin sēricum, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). Equivalent to silk + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots selkin, silkin (“silken”), Icelandic silki (“silken”).
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