silkenly

English

Etymology

silken +‎ -ly

Adverb

silkenly (comparative more silkenly, superlative most silkenly)

  1. In a silken manner.
    • 1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, London: Saunders & Otley, p. 155,
      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.
    • 1939, Edna Ferber, A Peculiar Treasure, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Chapter 9, p. 145,
      He appeared, hovering calf-eyed over a fragile and lovely creature whose skirts rustled silkenly as she moved.
    • 1969, Chaim Potok, The Promise, New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2012, Chapter Sixteen, p. 359,
      […] there was a rush of warm wind and I felt it on my face, felt it moving silkenly across my face […]
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