Sentence:  ... the Viceroy moved magnificently through India, resplendent with all the colour and dash of the vast Empire at his feet, with his superb bodyguard jangling scarlet beside his carriage, <WSD>silken</WSD> Indian princes bowing at his carpet, generals quivering at the salute and ceremonial salutes of thirty-one guns ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Dressed in silk.