Plush
[plʌʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet.
Checker: Wade--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
Editor: Luke
Definition
n. a variety of cloth woven like velvet but differing from it in having a longer and more open pile.—adj. Plush′y of or resembling plush.
Checker: Susie
Examples
- The room was furnished in red plush. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There was much red plush and brass. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We consider you an inattentive reskel,' said the gentleman in the orange plush. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As you observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most useful material for showing traces. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the line of textiles, cotton and silk threads in great variety, with woven goods of all kinds from cheese-cloth to silk plush. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And he said that I had nothing fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much as taken out of the drawer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I went to the window and looked out, then pulled a cord that shut the thick plush curtains. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- That fellow behind your chair may be a Janissary with a bow-string in his plush breeches pocket. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Tuckle took the chair, and was supported at the other end of the board by the gentleman in orange plush. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Typist: Rosa