silkenly

adv

Etymology: From silken + -ly.

1. 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.”