Silk Made Sɪlk Fine Type Noun Caterpillar Spins

• the caterpillar spins the silk around its entire body.
• a silk dress/blouse/scarf/tie/sari
• silk stockings
• made of pure silk

silk

1. fine soft thread produced by silkworms
• The caterpillar spins the silk around its entire body.
2. a type of fine smooth cloth made from silk thread; a piece of this cloth
• SEE ALSO watered silk
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/watered-silk
• a silk dress/blouse/scarf/tie/sari
• silk stockings
• made of pure silk
• Her skin was as smooth as silk.
• fine silks produced in Italy

Extra Examples

• a drawing room decorated in rich blue and purple silks
• the bright silks of saris
3. thread made of silk used for sewing
4. clothes made of silk, especially the coloured shirts worn by people riding horses in a race (= jockeys)
• ladies in silks and satins
5. a type of lawyer who represents the government (= a King’s Counsel / Queen’s Counsel)
• to take silk (= to become this type of lawyer)
6. (you won't) succeed in making something good out of material that does not seem very good at all

Word Origin

• Old English sioloc, seolec, from late Latin sericum, neuter of Latin sericus, based on Greek Sēres, the name given to the inhabitants of the Far Eastern countries from which silk first came overland to Europe.