velvet
IPA: vˈɛɫvʌt
noun
- A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
- Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
- (rare, countable) A female chinchilla; a sow.
- (slang, uncountable) The drug dextromethorphan.
- (slang, uncountable) Money acquired by gambling.
verb
- To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
- (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
- To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
- (figurative, transitive) To soften; to mitigate.
- (of a cat's claws) to retract.
adjective
- Made of velvet.
- Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
- (politics) Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
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