Come then youth, Beauty, and Blood, all ye soft powers,

[…] in spite of the buzz in the next room, Edith had rolled herself up into a soft ball of muslin and ribbon, and silken curls, and gone off into a peaceful little after-dinner nap.

He heard the silken rustle of a dressing-gown being drawn on.

1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, London: S. Richardson & A. Wilde, 1730, Volume 2, No. 81, 28 December, 1724, p. 197,
Last 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.

[…] 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 […]

1757, John Dyer, The Fleece, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Book I, lines 492-494, p. 30,
Or, if your sheep are of Silurian breed,
Nightly to house them dry on fern or straw,
Silk’ning their fleeces.

[…] these lights silkened her black skin:

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