- silkenhair, my
- This occurs in The Dream of Fair Women, by Henry Williamson, and is a good example of how a particular vocative can arise in special circumstances. A mother talking to her five-year-old daughter says: ‘Kiss Mummie, my silkenhair. How Mummie wishes her own hair was soft like Quillie’s.’
A dictionary of epithets and terms of address . Leslie Dunkling . 2015.