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Velours

noun
1.
Heavy fabric that resembles velvet.  Synonym: velour.






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"Velours" Quotes from Famous Books



... this stung our Sylph to such an excess that he waited outside the Palais Royal and beat Roy with a stick when he came out. The poet was, perhaps, not much hurt; at all events, he had the presence of mind to retort, "Patte de velours, patte de velours, Minon-minet!" It was six years after this that Moncrif was elected into the French Academy, and then the shower of epigrams broke out again. He wished to be made historiographer; "Oh, nonsense," the ...
— Gossip in a Library • Edmund Gosse



Words linked to "Velours" :   fabric, material, cloth, textile, velour



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