velveteen
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vɪˈtin noun
1.
a cotton pile fabric with short pile.
2.
velveteens, trousers of this fabric.
adjective
3.
made of velveteen: a velveteen jumper.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a. a cotton fabric resembling velvet with a short thick pile, used for clothing, etc |
| b. (as modifier): velveteen trousers | |
| 2. | (plural) trousers made of velveteen |
| velvet'eened | |
| —adj | |
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Velveteen
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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velveteen
in textiles, fabric with a short, dense pile surface and a smooth back, usually made of cotton and resembling velvet. It is made by the filling-pile method, in which the plain or twill weave is used as a base and extra fillings are floated over four or five warps. After weaving, the floats are cut, and their ends are brushed up to form a smooth pile about one-eighth inch long.
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Example sentences
The purple velveteen curtain is shabby, a castoff from the public school.
She was dressed in a calico gown, blue check apron and velveteen bat.
Braids on the bottom of the skirt wear out shoes more than velveteen.
In the living room are two velveteen sofas that were too big and too ugly for some long-gone tenants to take with them.
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