corn silk

the long, threadlike, silky styles on an ear of corn.

Origin of corn silk

First recorded in 1850–55

Her pale blue eyes, like the painted eyes of a china doll, were red with constant tears under their corn-silk lashes.

Tharon of Lost Valley |Vingie E. Roe
He took out his pipe and filled it from a handful of corn-silk in his jumper pocket.

The Biography of a Prairie Girl |Eleanor Gates
Her hair, bleached the color of corn-silk, fell over her face in elfin wildness.

The Valiants of Virginia |Hallie Erminie Rives
From velvet muzzle to sweeping tail, from mottled croup to fetlocks, she shone in the sunlight like corn-silk.

The Biography of a Prairie Girl |Eleanor Gates

Ah, Sor Conte, she had blue eyes, and her hair was like the corn-silk.

A Roman Singer |F. Marion Crawford

corn silk

US and Canadian the silky tuft of styles and stigmas at the tip of an ear of maize, formerly used as a diuretic