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velvety
[ vel-vi-tee ]
adjective
- suggestive of or resembling velvet; smooth; soft:
velvety rose petals; a velvety voice; a velvety cream sauce.
- (of liquor) smooth-tasting; mild; mellow:
a velvety Scotch.
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Other Words From
- velvet·i·ness noun
- un·velvet·y adjective
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Example Sentences
His velvety smooth baritone is among the most imitated but never quite duplicated.
Throw all the ingredients for bechamel in at once and 10 minutes later you have perfectly velvety sauce.
Slowly the fingers would start to move and scratch the enormous soft skull and velvety ears.
Finally home, with her family close and darkness falling, Kamila settled down on a velvety pillow in her living room.
Still, nothing quite satisfies the way a rich, velvety soup does.
The wee round wonders with their mystery of velvety colour are well fitted to take captive the young eye.
Liszt gave it with a velvety softness, clearness, brilliancy and pearliness of touch that was inimitable.
Drapes of velvety synthetic, dyed the deep green that Martian colonists like, covered the walls.
But still more wonderful were those great, dark, velvety eyes, deep and unfathomable.
Perhaps it was the woman with the velvety black eyes—tall and straight—the best dancer in all Paris.
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