silks
silks Lexical Profile
silks Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The brightly colored, lightweight blouse and cap worn by a jockey or harness racing driver to identify the horse's owner.
"The jockey adjusted his emerald-and-gold silks before mounting the thoroughbred in the paddock."
Various types, grades, or bolts of fabric woven from silk fibers.
"The textile merchant imported fine patterned silks and brocades from workshops across Asia."
Two long panels of strong, flexible fabric suspended from a high ceiling, used by aerial acrobats to perform suspended gymnastics and drops.
"She climbed twenty feet up the aerial silks and wrapped the fabric securely around her ankles before executing a graceful inversion."
British Senior barristers who have been appointed King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, entitled to wear silk robes in court (plural of silk).
"Two prominent commercial silks were instructed to lead the complex appellate argument before the Supreme Court."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from Old English seoloc, ultimately traced through Latin sericum and Ancient Greek Sēres, the name for the people of eastern Asia from whom silk was first obtained overland.