Meaning

noun a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back

adjective smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste

adjective resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface

originFrom Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Vulgar Latin *villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.

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