oiled silk

/ ɔɪld /

noun

1. silk treated with oil to make it waterproof

Example Sentences

Instead of a cloth, on each table was a sheet of fine glazed paper which had the appearance of oiled silk.

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Then taking a slip of paper she wrote upon it two lines, which she wrapped in a piece of oiled silk and fastened to her bracelet.

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"Not while my father lives," retorts he, and throws aside the oiled silk cape with a London name upon it.

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From the oiled silk fell out three linked scarabs, set in wrought.

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Slowly the oiled silk gas containers filled, as the light hydrogen vapor poured into them.

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