σιρικός (by assimilation of vowels, for σηρικός; see Mayser, 150; WH, Notes, 151), -ή, -όν

(οἱ Σῆρες, a people of India from whom the ancients got the first silk),

silk, silken; as subst. τὸ σ. silken fabric, silk: Rev.18:12 (cf. FlJ, B.J. vii, 5, 4).†

(AS)