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velvetry en · NOUN

Etymology

From velvet + -ry.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Garments or furnishings made from velvet.
   • Sitting around on sofas and velvetries with their flutes and their papers and their laughter. 2009, Terry Midkiff, World is Woman, page 34:
   • All their ribandry and gauzery — their silkery and velvetry — were draggled, and limp, and shapeless […] 1862, Charles Mackay, The Gouty Philosopher, page 170:
   • And it was from behind those draped velvetries that the sounds came, a buzzing, as of conversation. 1967, Richard S. Prather, Gat Heat, page 108:

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