plush
noun
a fabric, as of silk, cotton, or wool, whose pile is more than ⅛ inch (0.3 centimeter) high.
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When the time for mating comes, the deer within a few weeks grows his horns, which at first are covered with a plushlike coating, known as velvet.
From The Meaning of Evolution by Samuel Christian Schmucker