spun silk

American  

noun

1. yarn produced by spinning silk waste and short, broken filaments from which the sericin has been removed.

2. a fabric woven from this yarn.

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spun silk British  

noun

1. yarn or fabric made from silk waste

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Etymology

Origin of spun silk

First recorded in 1750–60

Example Sentences

At one point, Abdiel Figueroa Reyes lets loose, his limbs rippling like spun silk.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2024

Under Peers’s and Godley’s direction, the spun silk was hand-woven into fabric, then elaboratedly embroidered with a design inspired by 19th-century illustrations featuring — what else? — spiders.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2012

Its annual output is nearly 100,000 bales of raw silk and 1,000,000 lb. of spun silk yarn-nearly one-sixth of Japan's total output.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her long braid ended with a finger-size curl that looked like spun silk.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

His hair was the pale, nearly translucent color of spun silk.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam