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silked, a.|sɪlkt|
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1. Coated with silk; clothed in or covered with silk.
1837Annals Electricity, Magnetism & Chem. I. 112 The bar is covered with several coils of silked copper wire. 1844Noad Electricity (ed. 2) 246 Twenty-two feet of silked wire wound on a quill. 1858J. P. Joule Sci. Papers (1884) 405, 2798 yards of no. 40 silked copper wire. 1864C. Rossetti Farm Walk in Prince's Progress (1866) 152 I've seen grand ladies plumed and silked. 1909M. B. Saunders Litany Lane iii. 33 Gorgeously furred and laced and scented and silked.
2. Of (the pages of) a book, etc.: having been strengthened by silking (sense 2).
1943Amer. Archivist VI. 153 Upon subjection to accelerated aging tests..it was found that the silked papers had lost 52 per cent of their folding endurance. 1971Catal. Mildred C. Esty Coll. MSS Rob. Burns (Christie's) 7, 1 p., 4to., with conjoint address leaf (considerably repaired, silked, a few words rubbed along fold). |