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noun

Velvet n.

1.

A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back, or with other soft fibers such as nylon, acetate, or rayon.

2.

The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.

3.

Something likened to velvet (1) in being soft or luxurious; as, a lawn of velvet.

Cotton velvet, an imitation of velvet, made of cotton.

Velvet cork, the best kind of cork bark, supple, elastic, and not woody or porous.

Velvet crab (Zool.), a European crab (Portunus puber). When adult the black carapace is covered with a velvety pile. Called also lady crab, and velvet fiddler.

Velvet dock (Bot.), the common mullein.

Velvet duck. (Zool.)

(a)

A large European sea duck, or scoter (Oidemia fusca). The adult male is glossy, velvety black, with a white speculum on each wing, and a white patch behind each eye.

(b)

The American whitewinged scoter. See Scoter.

Velvet flower (Bot.), love-lies-bleeding. See under Love.

Velvet grass (Bot.), a tall grass (Holcus lanatus) with velvety stem and leaves; called also soft grass.

Velvet runner (Zool.), the water rail; so called from its quiet, stealthy manner of running. (Prov. Eng.)

Velvet scoter. (Zool.) Same as Velvet duck, above.

Velvet sponge. (Zool.) See under Sponge.

in velvet having a coating of velvet (2) over the antlers; in the annual stage where the antlers are still growing; of deer.

verb

Velvet v. t. To make like, or cover with, velvet. (R.)

Velvet v. i. To pain velvet. (R.)

adjective

Velvet adj. Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety. " The cowslip's velvet head."

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Etymology of 'Velvet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Velvet" Quotes from Famous Books

... good velvet carpet will last just twice as long as an ingrain one. I'm not going to buy anything cheap. The best is always the cheapest. I want sofas, chairs, rockers, and tables, and then such other dainties as your good taste may suggest. It is to be ...

— Fred Fearnot's New Ranch - and How He and Terry Managed It • Hal Standish

... left a brave soldier to starve; the discussion generally terminating with an indiscriminate condemnation of the rich. Antoine, the better to revenge himself, continued to march about in his regimental cap and trousers and his old yellow velvet jacket, although his mother had offered to purchase some more becoming clothes for him. But no; he preferred to make a display of his rags, and paraded them on Sundays in the most frequented parts of the ...

— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola

... Barnardine was wrapt in a long dark cloak, which scarcely allowed the kind of half-boots, or sandals, that were laced upon his legs, to appear, and shewed only the point of a broad sword, which he usually wore, slung in a belt across his shoulders. On his head was a heavy flat velvet cap, somewhat resembling a turban, in which was a short feather; the visage beneath it shewed strong features, and a countenance furrowed with the lines of cunning and darkened ...

— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe

... fins all aquiver, genuine masterpieces of jewelry, formerly sacred to the goddess Diana, much in demand by rich Romans, and about which the old saying goes: "He who catches them doesn't eat them!" Finally, adorned with emerald ribbons and dressed in velvet and silk, golden angelfish passed before our eyes like courtiers in the paintings of Veronese; spurred gilthead stole by with their swift thoracic fins; thread herring fifteen inches long were wrapped in their phosphorescent glimmers; gray mullet thrashed the sea with ...

— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne

... immediately found himself in a sunny corner. The little grassy mounds were numerous, few had headstones; but one, marked by a little white cross, had evidently received much care and attention. The grass was soft and fine as velvet. Cardo approached it with sorrowful reverence; he stooped ...

— By Berwen Banks • Allen Raine

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