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VELVET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A silky densely piled fabric with a plain back
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("velvet" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Derivation:
velvet (resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface)
velvet (smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste)
velvety (resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface
Synonyms:
velvet; velvety
Classified under:
Similar:
soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)
Derivation:
velvet (a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste
Synonyms:
velvet; velvet-textured; velvety
Classified under:
Similar:
smooth (having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities)
Derivation:
velvet (a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back)
Context examples:
They ought to have come a little sooner to have heard his lecture on dress, for they were splendidly attired in velvet, silk, and furs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He wore a semi-military smoking jacket, claret-coloured, with a black velvet collar.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To examine and arrange these things gave Amy great satisfaction, especially the jewel cases, in which on velvet cushions reposed the ornaments which had adorned a belle forty years ago.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A high bald head had a small velvet smoking-cap poised coquettishly upon one side of its pink curve.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was by no means unreasonably large, and contained neither tapestry nor velvet.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
His vest was of black velvet, open at the top to show an embroidered shirt-front, with a high, smooth, white cravat above it, which kept his neck for ever on the stretch.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Oh! could the originals of the portraits against the wainscot, could the gentlemen in brown velvet and the ladies in blue satin have seen what was going on, have been conscious of such an overthrow of all order and neatness!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Fanny's imagination had prepared her for something grander than a mere spacious, oblong room, fitted up for the purpose of devotion: with nothing more striking or more solemn than the profusion of mahogany, and the crimson velvet cushions appearing over the ledge of the family gallery above.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It was the sweetest little room in the world, with a soft comfortable bed that had sheets of green silk and a green velvet counterpane.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
