Velvet
['velvɪt] or ['vɛlvɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back.
(adj.) resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface .
(adj.) smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste .
Typist: Rosa--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
(a.) Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
(v. i.) To pain velvet.
(v. t.) To make like, or cover with, velvet.
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Definition
n. a cloth made from silk with a close shaggy pile: a similar cloth made of cotton: the velvet-like covering of a growing antler: (slang) money gained by gambling.—adj. made of velvet: soft like velvet.—ns. Vel′veret a poor quality of velvet the web of cotton the pile of silk; Velveteen′ a fustian made of twilled cotton with a pile of the same material: a kind of velvet made of silk and cotton mixed throughout; Vel′vet-flower the love-lies-bleeding.—n.pl. Vel′vet-guards (Shak.) velvet trimmings applied metaphorically to the citizens who wore them.—ns. Vel′veting the nap of velvet: (pl.) velvet goods collectively; Vel′vet-leaf the Indian mallow; Vel′vet-pā′per flock paper; Vel′vet-pile any material with a long soft nap; Vel′vet-scō′ter a kind of black duck with large white spot on the wings; Vel′vet-work embroidery on velvet.—adj. Vel′vety made of or like velvet: soft: soft in taste or touch.—Stand on velvet to place one's bets in such a way as not to loose in any event.
Checker: Wyatt
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of velvet, portends very successful enterprises. If you wear it, some distinction will be conferred upon you. To see old velvet, means your prosperity will suffer from your extreme pride. If a young woman dreams that she is clothed in velvet garments, it denotes that she will have honors bestowed upon her, and the choice between several wealthy lovers.
Typist: Marvin
Examples
- Sir Percival looked seriously embarrassed and distressed, Mr. Fairlie stretched out his lazy legs on his velvet footstool, and said, Dear Marian! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The whole covers a crimson velvet cap with an ermine border. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And what's this with a grey gown and a black velvet cap? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She had on a black velvet polonaise with jet buttons, and a tiny green monkey muff; I never saw her so stylishly dressed, Janey continued. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Paul, for light enough still lingered to show the velvet blackness of his close-shorn head, and the sallow ivory of his brow) looked in. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At the Opera I know she had on dark blue velvet, perfectly plain and flat--like a night-gown. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The eight-pointed cross of his order was cut on the shoulder of his mantle in black velvet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In a short time a white metallic image is obtained, which, when relieved by a background of black velvet or black varnish, equals in delicacy of finish the most beautiful Daguerreotypes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Around her neck was a narrow black velvet ribbon with the ends falling down her back. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The young man felt a touch on his arm and saw Mrs. van der Luyden looking down on him from the pure eminence of black velvet and the family diamonds. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- You can buy enough velvet in Genoa for twenty-five dollars to make a five hundred dollar cloak in New York--so the ladies tell me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He wore a semi-military smoking jacket, claret-coloured, with a black velvet collar. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I caught glimpses of velvet chairs, a high white marble mantel-piece, and what seemed to be a suit of Japanese armor at one side of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The remaining portion of the lady is encased in a dark-colored skirt (black velvet is the best), and her feet are firmly strapped to a wood rest at the back of the cabinet, as shown in Fig.?2. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- But Genoa's greatness has degenerated into an unostentatious commerce in velvets and silver filagree-work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There would be no occasion to prohibit the importation of foreign silks and velvets. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Lyons velvets rank higher in America than those of Genoa. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Milton