0 a cloth usually made from silk or cotton with a thick, soft surface -- 丝绒;平绒;天鹅绒
1 made of velvet -- 天鹅绒制的;天鹅绒的
2 Something that is velvety has a beautiful soft, smooth quality or appearance, usually something dark or deep. -- 柔软光滑的;天鹅绒般的(通常为暗色的)
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.