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  • adjective (of textures) resembling plush

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Examples

  • In fact his stump was enough, for this was hardly soft and plush-like, as was, for example, a fist with flesh on it.

    The Road Leads On 2003

  • Once they found a fluff of plush-like gray fur still bedaubed with light pinkish | blood, then a clot of cream-yellow feathers and draggled skin.

    Galactic Derelict Norton, Andre 1959

  • Every shade of the green had departed; but warm rains came, and in a few days there was a green carpet plush-like in its softness and delicacy.

    The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey

  • Many a time have I heard ladies dispute the shade and hue of her plush-like coat as they ran their white, jeweled fingers through her silken hair.

    The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

  • Within easy reach of a great city, with its literary and social clubs, its theaters, lecture courses, public meetings, dinner-parties, etc., he yet lived withdrawn in an academic retirement among elm-shaded avenues and leafy gardens, the dome of the Boston Statehouse looming distantly across the meadows where the Charles laid its "steel blue sickle" upon the variegated, plush-like ground of the wide marsh.

    Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

  • Within easy reach of a great city, with its literary and social clubs, its theaters, lecture courses, public meetings, dinner parties, etc., he yet lived withdrawn in an academic retirement among elm-shaded avenues and leafy gardens, the dome of the Boston State-house looming distantly across the meadows where the Charles laid its "steel blue sickle" upon the variegated, plush-like ground of the wide marsh.

    Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

  • The bark of these trees, seen at a little distance, is of a bright orange brown tint, delicately mottled with darker shades, and with a curious silky or plush-like gloss, which gives them

    Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880

  • Many a time have I heard ladies dispute the shade and hue of her plush-like coat as they ran their white, jeweled fingers through her silken hair.

    A Ride With A Mad Horse In A Freight-Car 1898 1872

  • This had shorter plumes of a rich red, but it had two long double curved wires in its tail, and its upper plumage was more plush-like and richer in its colours.

    Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Its pursuit of worms and grubs, its nest, its soft plush-like fur, the pointed nose, the strong digging fore-feet, the small all but hidden eyes, and hundreds of other properties, render it a noticeable creature.

    Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848

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