silkenly
adverb
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adv
Etymology: From silken + -ly.
- In a silken manner.
“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.”