velveteen

English

Etymology

From velvet +‎ -een. Compare veloutine, from French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛlvətiːn/, enPR: vĕl'və-tēn

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: vel‧ve‧teen

Noun

velveteen (countable and uncountable, plural velveteens)

1. A cotton fabric with a short pile, resembling velvet.

   Synonym: velveret

   • 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Forty-Minute Lunch […] ”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:

     […] I'm trying to build a story that not only unlocks the velveteen secrets of her teenager's heart, but also contains action, development, along with—God help me—some imitation of meaning.

Derived terms

• black velveteen
• velveteened

Related terms

• beaverteen
• velveret

Translations

cotton fabric with a short pile

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: памучно кадифе (pamučno kadife), бархет m (barhet)
• Catalan: vellutina
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 棉絨 / 棉绒 (miánróng), ^{(please verify)} 平絨 / 平绒 (píngróng)

• Esperanto: veluro
• Finnish: puuvillasametti
• French: veloutine (fr) f
• German: Baumwollsamt m, Veloursamt m, (colloquial) Nickistoff m
• Ido: koton-veluro
• Irish: veilbhitín m
• Italian: vellutino (it) m
• Japanese: 別珍 (ja) (betchin)
• Korean: 벨베틴 (belbetin)
• Polish: welwet m
• Russian: вельве́т (ru) m (velʹvét), плис (ru) m (plis), манче́стер (ru) m (mančéster, mančéstɛr)
• Spanish: pana (es) f, velludillo m
• Uyghur: مەخمەل (mexmel)
• Welsh: melfaréd m