velvetry

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noun

Garments or furnishings made from velvet.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounvelvetry (countable and uncountable, plural velvetries)

plural velvetries

  1. countableuncountableGarments or furnishings made from velvet.

    Sitting around on sofas and velvetries with their flutes and their papers and their laughter.

    2009, Terry Midkiff, World is Woman, page 34
    2 more examples

    All their ribandry and gauzery — their silkery and velvetry — were draggled, and limp, and shapeless […]

    1862, Charles Mackay, The Gouty Philosopher, page 170

    And it was from behind those draped velvetries that the sounds came, a buzzing, as of conversation.

    1967, Richard S. Prather, Gat Heat, page 108

Origin

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velvetry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/velvetry

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“velvetry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/velvetry. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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