Velvet

Velvet

Velvet is a type of woven tufted fabric in which the cut threads are evenly distributed, with a short dense pile, giving it a distinctive feel.

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Famous quotes containing the word velvet:

    “As if her velvet helmet high
    Did turret rationality.
    She fans her wing up to the winde
    As if her Pettycoate were lin’de
    With reasons fleece, and hoises saile
    And humming flies in thankfull gaile”
    —Edward Taylor (1645–1729)

    “Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

    “Let the soil squeal I am the biting man
    And the velvet dead inch out.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)