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Definition velvet

Etymology

From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Late Latin villutittus, diminutive of vill?tus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.

Noun

velvet (countable and uncountable, plural velvets)

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

Verb

velvet (third-person singular simple present velvets, present participle velveting, simple past and past participle velveted)

  1. To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
  2. (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
  3. To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To soften; to mitigate.

Adjective

velvet (comparative more velvet, superlative most velvet)

  1. Made of velvet.
  2. Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
  3. (politics) peaceful, carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.

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