silken

Meanings

1. Made of silk.
2. Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly
3. Having a smooth, soft, or light texture.
4. Suave.
5. Having a smooth, soft, or flowing utterance; attractive or (typically derogatory) convincing through pleasing expression.
6. Dressed in silk.

1. To render silken or silklike.

Etymology

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”).