Definition of "silken" [silk•en]

• Made of silk. (adjective)
• Resembling silk in texture or appearance; smooth and lustrous. See Synonyms at sleek. (adjective)
• Delicately pleasing or caressing in effect: a silken voice. (adjective)
• Luxurious. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "She wrapped her tree in silken lies, spun promise-dreams of innocence, beguiling the fetid flies that were the souls of her progeny generations upon generations gone."
• "If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees, -- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself"
• "Sahim in silken robes of honour gold inwoven and set on"