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silken

[sil-kuhn]

silk·en

[sil-kuhn]
adjective
1.
made of silk.
2.
like silk in smoothness, softness, glossiness, or delicateness.
3.
clad in silk.
4.
smoothly persuasive or ingratiating; mellifluous: the senator's silken oratory.
5.
elegant; luxurious.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English seolcen. See silk, -en2
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Silken is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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silken (ˈsɪlkən)
 
adj
1.  made of silk
2.  resembling silk in smoothness or gloss
3.  dressed in silk
4.  soft and delicate
5.  rare luxurious or elegant

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