Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In hat-making, to smooth off or dress with a velure, as the nap of a silk hat.
- noun A textile fabric having a thick soft nap; velvet or velveteen.
- noun A pad of silk or plush used by hatters for smoothing and giving a luster to the surface of hats. Also called looer, lure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Velvet.
- noun A substance resembling velvet.
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- noun dated A
fabric similar tovelvet
Etymologies
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Examples
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Over the pictures, the vases, the old brown plush rocking-chairs and the stool, over the three gilt chairs, over the new chintz-covered easy chair and the gray velure sofa -- over everything everywhere, was the familiar coating of smoke grime.
Alice Adams 1921
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Over the pictures, the vases, the old brown plush rocking-chairs and the stool, over the three gilt chairs, over the new chintz-covered easy chair and the gray velure sofa -- over everything everywhere, was the familiar coating of smoke grime.
Alice Adams Booth Tarkington 1907
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When he came, Mistress Marian was standing i 'th' great door o 'th' castle, in her hawking gown o 'green velure cloth laced all with silver cord; her plumed hat was on her curls, and her hawk, Beryl, on her fist.
A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904
qms commented on the word velure
Long gone is the beastly couture
That wrapped up the swells in pellure.
Farewell to the feathers
And exotic leathers,
Replaced now with sinless velure.
May 8, 2018