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plush

  [pluhsh] noun, adjective, -er, -est.
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–noun
1. a fabric, as of silk, cotton, or wool, whose pile is more than 1/8 inch (0.3 cm) high.
–adjective
2. expensively or showily luxurious: the plushest hotel in town
3. abundantly rich; lush; luxuriant: plush, rolling lawns.
Origin:
1585–95; 1920–25 for def. 2; < F pluche, syncopated var. of peluche ≪ L pilus hair

Related forms:
plushed, adjective
plushlike, adjective
plushly, adverb
plushness, noun

Synonyms:
2. opulent, lavish, palatial.
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plush   (plŭsh)   
n.  A fabric of silk, rayon, cotton, or other material, having a thick deep pile.
adj.   plush·er, plush·est
  1. Made of or covered with plush.
  2. Luxurious.

[French pluche, variant of peluche, from pelucher, to become fluffy, shed, from Old French peluchier, to pluck, probably from Vulgar Latin *piluccāre; see pluck.]
plush'ly adv., plush'ness n.
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Plush

Plush\, n. [F. pluche, peluche (cf. It. peluzzo), fr. L. pilus hair. See pile hair, and cf. Peruke.] A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. --Cowper.
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plush 
"soft fabric," 1594, from M.Fr. pluche "shag, plush," contraction of peluche "hairy fabric," from O.Fr. peluchier "to pull, to tug, to pluck" (the final process in weaving plush), from V.L. *piluccare "remove hair" (see pluck). The adj. meaning "swank, luxurious" is first attested 1927; plushy in this sense is recorded from 1923.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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