velveted
velveted adjective: covered with velvet; wearing velvet clothing. Also the simple past and past participle of velvet.
Adjective
velveted (not comparable)
- Covered with velvet; wearing velvet clothing.
- " […] of hats, note that some are shorn, and others shaggy, some velveted, others covered with taffities, and others with satin […] "1653, François Rabelais, Pantagruel (1532), translated by Thomas Urquhart, in The Works of Rabelais, London: Chatto & Windus, 1873, Chapter 14, p. 33...
- […] this yellow-starched and velveted old hag […]1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “20”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC
- Having a velvet-like surface; covered with a velvet-like material.
- Down there the "furriner" would have seen only the rough course of the creek between moss-velveted and shaded bowlders of titanic proportions.1913, Charles Neville Buck, chapter 1, in The Call of the Cumberlands, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 1
- The tips of the trees were velveted with a pale brown dust, dotted irregularly here and there as though there had been a snowfall […]1965, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856), translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling and Paul de Man, New York: Norton, 2005, p. 289
Also used as
velveted is also the simple past and past participle of velvet.
Questions about velveted
- What does velveted mean?
- Velveted means covered with velvet; wearing velvet clothing.
- What part of speech is velveted?
- Velveted is an adjective.
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