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Definition of Silkily
1. Adverb. In a silky manner. "`Darling,' she said silkily"
Definition of Silkily
1. Adverb. In a silky manner. ¹
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Definition of Silkily
1. in a silky manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silkily
Literary usage of Silkily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"... bracts hard, strongly ciliate, outer smaller glabrous, inner hemispheric rusty
silkily hairy ; flowers pedicelled, £ in. dimn., and pedicel silkily ..."
2. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George. Massee (1893)
"... soft, white; convex then •expanded and almost plane, obtuse, silkily ...
stem solid, 2A-4 in. long, i in. and more thick, soft, fragile, silkily- ..."
3. Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"... because of the sun. Paul was considerably taller than she, though he was not
big. He fancied himself. On the fallow land the young wheat shone silkily. ..."
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