velvet
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old French veluotte, from Latin villus (“tuft, down”).
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
velvet (countable and uncountable; plural velvets)
- A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, The Mirror and the Lamp[1]:
- She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, The Mirror and the Lamp[1]:
- Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
Translations[edit]
fabric
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fine fur
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Derived terms[edit]
- black velvet
- Velvet Revolution
- velvety (adjective)
Verb[edit]
velvet (third-person singular simple present velvets, present participle velveting, simple past and past participle velveted)
- (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying
Adjective[edit]
velvet (comparative more velvet, superlative most velvet)
- Made of velvet.
- Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
- Milton
- The cowslip's velvet head.
- Milton
