Velvet

Definitions

1. A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
   countable, uncountable
2. Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
   countable, uncountable
3. A female chinchilla; a sow.
   countable, rare
4. The drug dextromethorphan.
   slang, uncountable
5. Money acquired by gambling.
   slang, uncountable

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Examples

“For the first time since her husband's death, she had thrown off her weeds, and put⟳ on attire more suited to the occasion. She was richly, yet plainly dressed, in a purple velvet, with a hood of white point⟳ lace. Even her silent handmaids were surprised out of their ordinary propriety by her appearance.”

“She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace,[…]; and the way she laughed, cackling like⟳ a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […] all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss⟳ Moucher.”

“His [a hart's] head when it commeth firſt out, hath a ruſſet pyll vpon it, the which is called Veluet, […]”

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