velvet

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  Miss Velvet-Purr sings a song, which is much admired
• WordNet 3.6
  • adj velvet resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface
  • adj velvet smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste
  • n velvet a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back
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• Interesting fact: Against Army regulations, George Armstrong Custer often wore a blue velvet uniform.
• • Velvet 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, or with other soft fibers such as nylon, acetate, or rayon.
  • a Velvet Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety. "The cowslip's velvet head."
  • Velvet Something likened to velvet{1} in being soft or luxurious; as, a lawn of velvet .
  • Velvet The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
  • v. t Velvet To make like, or cover with, velvet.
  • v. i Velvet To pain velvet.
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• • n velvet A closely woven silk stuff having a very thick and short pile on one side, which is formed by carrying part of the warp-thread over a needle, and cutting the loops afterward. Inferior kinds are made with a cotton back (see velveret), and are commonly called cotton-backed velvets. Cotton velvets are also made. (See cotton, and also velveteen.) These imitations and inferior qualities are so common that real velvet is commonly called silk velvet or Lyons velvet to distinguish it from them.
  • n velvet The covering of a growing antler, consisting of the modified periosteum peculiar to antlers, with cuticle and fur. It bears the same relation to the nutrition of the antler that periosteum does to that of bone. Its sloughing or exuviation follows the constriction and final obliteration of its vessels—a process which is accomplished or favored by the growth of the bur about the base of the antler, which cuts off or obstructs the circulation of blood. The antler subsequently receives no nourishment, and is itself shortly afterward exuviated or cast as a foreign body.
  • n velvet Money gained through gambling: as, to play on velvet (that is, to gamble with money previously won). [Slang.]
  • velvet Made of velvet.
  • velvet Soft and smooth to the touch; resembling velvet in this respect.
  • velvet Very soft and smooth to the taste: as, old velvet Bourbon.
  • velvet To produce velvet-painting.
  • velvet To cover with velvet; cause to resemble velvet.
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• • n Velvet vel′vet a cloth made from silk, with a close shaggy pile: a similar cloth made of cotton: the velvet-like covering of a growing antler:
  • adj Velvet made of velvet: soft like velvet
  • n Velvet vel′vet (slang) money gained by gambling
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• Raymond Chandler

  

  “Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.”
• John Weitz

  

  “When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.”
• Charles V

  

  “Iron hand in a velvet glove.”
• Napoleon Bonaparte

  

  “A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”
• Henry David Thoreau

  

  “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

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