watered-silk

1. 1.

   silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern

   Synonymsmoire

   Broaderfabric

Questions about watered-silk

What does watered-silk mean?

watered-silk means "silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern".

How many syllables are in watered-silk?

watered-silk has 4 syllables: wa-te-red--silk. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for watered-silk?

Close synonyms include moire. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is watered-silk a common word?

watered-silk is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.