Definition of velvet

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Velvet (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..

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Velveting :: Velveting (n.) The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.
Plush :: Plush (n.) A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet..
Velvet :: Velvet (v. i.) To pain velvet.
Velutinous :: Velutinous (a.) Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety; as, a velutinous leaf..
Moquette :: Moquette (n.) A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.
Villus :: Villus (n.) Fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet..
Flock :: Flock (sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose..
Trevat :: Trevat (n.) A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.
Pile :: Pile (n.) A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet..
Velure :: Velure (n.) Velvet.
Vellet :: Vellet (n.) Velvet.
Stilt :: Stilpnomelane (n.) A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina..
Base :: Base (n.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower..
Figeater :: Figeater (n.) A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.
Nap :: Nap (n.) The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet..
Velvetbreast :: Velvetbreast (n.) The goosander.
Velours :: Velours (n.) One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet.
Velvet :: Velvet (n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
Velvet :: Velvet (a.) Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety..
Wilton Carpet :: Wilton carpet () A kind of carpet woven with loops like the Brussels, but differing from it in having the loops cut so as to form an elastic velvet pile; -- so called because made originally at Wilton, England..
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