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corn silk
noun
- the long, threadlike, silky styles on an ear of corn.
corn silk
noun
- the silky tuft of styles and stigmas at the tip of an ear of maize, formerly used as a diuretic
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Word History and Origins
Origin of corn silk1
First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences
The postmaster was one of the china-eyed, corn-silk Swedes, and he owned quite a bit of Goldstone.
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I caught her to my heart and kissed the soft corn-silk hair, the deep melting eyes, the ripe red lips.
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"You have a fine, natural swing," said the Colonel in a tone soft as corn silk.
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Can you put the corn-silk back on the corn, or the down on the catkins—say?
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From velvet muzzle to sweeping tail, from mottled croup to fetlocks, she shone in the sunlight like corn-silk.
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