velvet.
A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
Meaning & usage
A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
A female chinchilla; a sow.
The drug dextromethorphan.
Money acquired by gambling.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Vulgar Latin *villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.
To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
To soften; to mitigate.
to retract.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Vulgar Latin *villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.
Made of velvet.
Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Vulgar Latin *villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.
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