Sekirov Dictionary

velvet

/ˈvɛlvɪt/

noun 5
verb 5
adjective 3
forms 5
phrases 2

noun5

A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
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Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
- His [a hart's] head when it commeth first out, hath a russet pyll vpon it, the which is called Veluet, […] — 1575
(slang) Money acquired by gambling.
(slang) The drug dextromethorphan.
(rare) A female chinchilla; a sow.

verb5

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To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
- Penmachno mill is situate where a stream has furrowed a deep channel, and velveted the rocks with the richest mosses […]. — 1834
To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
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(figurative) To soften; to mitigate.
- She spoke very gently, full of compassion for the boy, velveting her reproach for me. — 2006
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To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
- Reacting to painkillers when velveted, Sovereign II was too sick to grow antlers last year, but has since recovered. — 2014
to retract.

adjective3

Made of velvet.
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Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
- The fawn then rose up, and creeping gently about the room, touched the cheeks or hands of the slumbering inmates with its velvet tongue, but so softly that none were awakened. — 1878
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Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
- The disintegration always took place within internal borders, whether it was velvet, as in the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, or bloody, like Yugoslavia's still unfinished break-up. — 2006

forms

velveted · velveting · velvets · more velvet · most velvet

Phrases with velvet

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