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English
Etymology
From silk + -ness.
Noun
silkness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) silkiness
1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: , London: for M L , published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):your silknesse Clearly mistakes Mecænas and his house
1837, L E L, “Chapter XXVI. Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 237:The imperious duchess had the eyes of a dove, and the mouth of a child; and the hair had that soft glossy silkness which I fancy usually belongs to a gentle and sensitive temperament.
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