silkenlyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

silkenly (comparative more silkenly, superlative most silkenly)

1. In a silken manner.
   • 1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, London: Saunders & Otley, p. 155,^[1]

     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.

   • 1939, Edna Ferber, A Peculiar Treasure, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Chapter 9, p. 145,^[2]

     He appeared, hovering calf-eyed over a fragile and lovely creature whose skirts rustled silkenly as she moved.

   • 1969, Chaim Potok, The Promise, New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2012, Chapter Sixteen, p. 359,^[3]

     […] there was a rush of warm wind and I felt it on my face, felt it moving silkenly across my face […]