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oiled silk

/ ɔɪld /

noun

  1. silk treated with oil to make it waterproof
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

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

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.

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

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

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

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