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cut velvet

noun

  1. a fabric in which the looped pile has been cut. Compare velvet.
  2. a fabric having a pattern of figured velvet with a backing of chiffon or voile.


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The seed we had seen sown had sprung up as thickly as finest cut velvet.

Cut velvet out inside of headsize wire, leaving a half inch to slash and turn up with the buckram.

There are linens hand-printed from old blocks that rival cut velvet in their lustrous color effect and cost almost as much.

He thus learned to use such complicated machines as the stocking and cut velvet looms.

Well, the swords are measured, Galgenstein strips off his doublet, and I my handsome cut-velvet in like fashion.

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