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  • adjective having hair that resembles silk

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Examples

  • In a dim Parisian bar, half a world away from South Africa, Emmanuel conjured her into flesh: a silky-haired woman with green eyes and an easy laugh, absolutely careless with her beauty.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • In a dim Parisian bar, half a world away from South Africa, Emmanuel conjured her into flesh: a silky-haired woman with green eyes and an easy laugh, absolutely careless with her beauty.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • A silky-haired stunner in a peach-colored halter dress, Rosalie reminded Calvin of a refreshing

    Tooth Decay 2009

  •  A silky-haired stunner in a peach-colored halter dress, Rosalie reminded Calvin of a refreshing summer dessert.

    Tooth Decay 2009

  • Listen, Rima, you are like all beautiful things in the wood — flower, and bird, and butterfly, and green leaf, and frond, and little silky-haired monkey high up in the trees.

    Green Mansions 2004

  • A fine strip of silky-haired, young gorilla skin made the band to sling the ornament from the shoulder when worn.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • This is a story about a dog, -- not the kind of dog you often see in the street here; not a fat, wrinkly pugdog, nor a smooth-skinned bulldog, nor even a big shaggy fellow, but a slim, silky-haired, sharp-eared little dog, the prettiest thing you can imagine.

    How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Sara Cone Bryant

  • Any way she did that same thing as long as she lived, and she was always just as gentle, and silky-haired, and loving as at first.

    How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Sara Cone Bryant

  • Herbalists do not distinguish it virtually from the silky-haired _Anemone Pulsatilla_, which medicinal variety is of highly valuable modern curative use as a Herbal Simple.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Los Lobos, this silky-haired, round-faced, supercilious stranger, in his smart, shabby Norfolk coat, which was perhaps one reason why every girl in the village was at once willing to marry him, no questions asked.

    The Heart of Rachael Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

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