Meanings
plural velvetries
- 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 342 more examples
All their ribandry and gauzery — their silkery and velvetry — were draggled, and limp, and shapeless […]
1862, Charles Mackay, The Gouty Philosopher, page 170And 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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