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    [Noun]  | "vel*vet" | \ ˈvel-vət \


    1: a clothing and upholstery fabric (as of silk, rayon, or wool) characterized by a short soft dense warp pile

    2: something suggesting velvet

    3: a characteristic (such as softness or smoothness) of velvet


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English veluet, velvet, borrowed from Anglo-French velvet, from velu "shaggy, soft, velvety" (going back to early Medieval Latin villūtus, from Latin villus "shaggy growth of hair, cloth nap" + Late Latin -ūtus, adjective suffix) + -et {see: |-et:1|-et:1}; Latin villus, perhaps dialectal variant of vellus "plucked wool, fleece" {mat|wool|};

    [Adjective]  | "velvetlike" 


    1: smooth or delicate in appearance or feel;


      * e.g., " ... the growing antlers of a young deer are covered with a velvetlike skin "





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