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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..

Nap :: Nap (n.) The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet..

Dress :: Dress (n.) A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress..

Velvet :: 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..

Vellet :: Vellet (n.) Velvet.

Velvet :: Velvet (v. t.) To make like, or cover with, velvet..

Velours :: Velours (n.) One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet.

Thickset :: Thickset (n.) A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen..

Mantilla :: Mantilla (n.) A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like..

Figeater :: Figeater (n.) A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.

Fustian :: Fustian (n.) A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc..

Moquette :: Moquette (n.) A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.

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..

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..

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..

Samarskite :: Samarskite (a.) A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals..

Velveting :: Velveting (n.) The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.

Velvet :: Velvet (v. i.) To pain velvet.

Velvetleaf :: Velvetleaf (n.) A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennae, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein..

Velveret :: Velveret (n.) A kind of velvet having cotton back.

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