blue velvet


nounSlang.
  1. a mixture of paregoric and Pyribenzamine taken by vein as an illicit drug.

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How to use blue velvet in a sentence

  • Her foot, thrust into a heel-less Tunisian slipper of blue velvet embroidered with seed pearls, beat the floor impatiently.

  • I put my impostor in a suit of blue velvet with a flowered waistcoat and stockings of pink.

    The O'Ruddy | Stephen Crane
  • She's religious—she had blue velvet Prayer-Books—and she's not as much religion, or anything else, in her than that table-leg.

    Sons and Lovers | David Herbert Lawrence
  • In India it is quite the contrary; she looks like a huge pearl surrounded by diamonds, rolling on a blue velvet ground.

    From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
  • She brought out from her trunk a dark blue velvet suit and a cap of the same with a jaunty bird's wing on one side.