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silkwork

Today it means: Goods or products manufactured from silk Full definition →

Middle English silkewerk

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Middle English · inherited fromsilkewerk
English todaysilkwork

From Middle English silkewerk, sylkewerke, selkwerk, sylke work, equivalent to silk + work.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.