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Definition of Velvet
1. Adjective. Smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste.
2. Noun. A silky densely piled fabric with a plain back.
3. Adjective. Resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface.
Definition of Velvet
1. 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.
2. a. Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
3. v. i. To pain velvet.
4. v. t. To make like, or cover with, velvet.
5. 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.
6. a. Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
7. v. i. To pain velvet.
8. v. t. To make like, or cover with, velvet.
Definition of Velvet
1. Noun. A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side. ¹
2. Noun. Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers. ¹
3. Verb. (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Velvet
1. a soft, smooth fabric [n -S] : VELVETED [adj]
Medical Definition of Velvet
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1. 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.
2. The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth. Cotton velvet, an imitation of velvet, made of cotton. Velvet cork, the best kind of cork bark, supple, elastic, and not woody or porous. Velvet crab a European crab (Portunus puber). When adult the black carapace is covered with a velvety pile. Called also lady crab, and velvet fiddler.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Velvet
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