0 a cloth usually made from silk or cotton with a thick, soft surface -- 絲絨；平絨；天鵝絨
1 made of velvet -- 天鵝絨製的；天鵝絨的
2 Something that is velvety has a beautiful soft, smooth quality or appearance, usually something dark or deep. -- 柔軟光滑的；天鵝絨般的（通常為暗色的）
Colourful velvets for the outer case began to appear in the early nineteenth century.
Courtiers played their parts in carefully selected clothes; jewelled hats, white satins, tawny velvets, orange taffetas.
Perhaps more understandable is the impulse to dress her not in the white cloth of gold but the spectacular velvets more usual to male monarchs on that day.
We want the velvet-glove treatment with our own work; therefore, we may well remain politic about others' practical work in the meantime.
The manic pace and utter disbelief of the velvet revolution has subsided.
The materials and finish give it the impression of a ballroom: velvet on the rear wall, red wall surfaces.
The velvet cloth is a near perfect black, but more expensive and less readily available than the other materials.
His adoption of blues and lavenders, his use of satin and velvet, also recall the great late eighteenth-century fops.
