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"ref": "1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus, Random House, published 2010, page 37",
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"text": "1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, London: S. Richardson & A. Wilde, 1730, Volume 2, No. 81, 28 December, 1724, p. 197,\nLast Saturday was three Weeks, at Two, in the Afternoon, I sent out my Servant, to watch a Couple of these Silken Strollers, and keep, if possible, within Ken of them."
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"ref": "1968, Jan Morris, chapter 10, in Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire, London: Faber & Faber, published 2010, page 200",
"text": "[…] the Viceroy moved magnificently through India, resplendent with all the colour and dash of the vast Empire at his feet, with his superb bodyguard jangling scarlet beside his carriage, silken Indian princes bowing at his carpet, generals quivering at the salute and ceremonial salutes of thirty-one guns […]",
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"text": "1757, John Dyer, The Fleece, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Book I, lines 492-494, p. 30,\nOr, if your sheep are of Silurian breed,\nNightly to house them dry on fern or straw,\nSilk’ning their fleeces."
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"ref": "1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus, Random House, published 2010, page 37",
"text": "He heard the silken rustle of a dressing-gown being drawn on.",
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"Having a smooth, soft, or flowing utterance; attractive or (typically derogatory) convincing through pleasing expression."
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"text": "1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, London: S. Richardson & A. Wilde, 1730, Volume 2, No. 81, 28 December, 1724, p. 197,\nLast Saturday was three Weeks, at Two, in the Afternoon, I sent out my Servant, to watch a Couple of these Silken Strollers, and keep, if possible, within Ken of them."
},
{
"ref": "1968, Jan Morris, chapter 10, in Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire, London: Faber & Faber, published 2010, page 200",
"text": "[…] the Viceroy moved magnificently through India, resplendent with all the colour and dash of the vast Empire at his feet, with his superb bodyguard jangling scarlet beside his carriage, silken Indian princes bowing at his carpet, generals quivering at the salute and ceremonial salutes of thirty-one guns […]",
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"sense": "made of silk",
"tags": [
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"word": "seric"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "metakʿsya",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "մետաքսյա"
},
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "metakʿse",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "մետաքսե"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "abrešume",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "աբրեշումե"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "koprinen",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "копринен"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "made of silk",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hedvábný"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "zijden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "seiden"
},
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "sērikós",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "σηρικός"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "selyem"
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{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "šulkkuin"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "di seta"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "serico"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "seolcen"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "jedwabny"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šólkovyj",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "шёлковый"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "made of silk",
"word": "de seda"
}
],
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}
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"text": "silkening body lotion"
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{
"text": "1757, John Dyer, The Fleece, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Book I, lines 492-494, p. 30,\nOr, if your sheep are of Silurian breed,\nNightly to house them dry on fern or straw,\nSilk’ning their fleeces."
},
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"ref": "1987, Derek Walcott, “The Light of the World”, in The Arkansas Testament, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 48",
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