SILKS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silks mean? 

• SILKS (noun)
  The noun SILKS has 1 sense:

1. the brightly colored garments of a jockey; emblematic of the stable

  Familiarity information: SILKS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The brightly colored garments of a jockey; emblematic of the stable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("silks" is a kind of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

A worked antimacassar lay upon her lap and a basket of coloured silks stood upon a stool beside her.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A fine life thou hast of it with thy silks and thy baubles, cozening the last few shillings from the pouches of dying men.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But when Gayelette came running out to him she found his silks and velvet all ruined by the river.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The queen likewise ordered the thinnest silks that could be gotten, to make me clothes, not much thicker than an English blanket, very cumbersome till I was accustomed to them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Sallie had been buying silks, and Meg longed for a new one, just a handsome light one for parties, her black silk was so common, and thin things for evening wear were only proper for girls.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It had formerly been Charlotte's, and over the mantelpiece still hung a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent seven years at a great school in town to some effect.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Certes, if mortal man might control God's mercy, it would be one of a lofty and God-like life, and not one who is decked out with rings and chains and silks, like a pleasure-wench at a kermesse.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And he proposed further, that by employing spiders, the charge of dyeing silks should be wholly saved; whereof I was fully convinced, when he showed me a vast number of flies most beautifully coloured, wherewith he fed his spiders, assuring us that the webs would take a tincture from them; and as he had them of all hues, he hoped to fit everybody’s fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and consistence to the threads.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)