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Meaning of silkenly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2

Definitions

In a silken manner.

Examples

“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.”
“He appeared, hovering calf-eyed over a fragile and lovely creature whose skirts rustled silkenly as she moved.”
“[…] there was a rush of warm wind and I felt it on my face, felt it moving silkenly across my face […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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