silk-lined s having a silk lining Usage(s) Through 96 hours (four days and four nights) the corpse lay in its silk-lined coffin, the head on an embroidered pillow. Paramount planned (but failed) to send a delegation of famed actors to watch Jiggs buried in his silk-lined coffin. There, dressed in a black frock coat and resting in a glass-topped, silk-lined coffin, lay the remains of one of history's most malevolent dictators.