velvety
[vel-vi-tee]
- 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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Origin of velvety
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Contemporary Examples
His velvety smooth baritone is among the most imitated but never quite duplicated.
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.
It gives the soup a velvety body, almost as if it were enriched with cream, without contributing a taste.
Historical Examples
Its tone was velvety in its richness, nor was there the least inflection of astonishment in its tone.
The Law-BreakersRidgwell Cullum
The trees were all uninjured; the carpet of velvety moss was undefiled by blood.
The DownfallEmile Zola
It was dark; the stars were shining in a sky of velvety blueness.
Fruit clothed with velvety down, large; stone rough-wrinkled.
Trees of the Northern United StatesAustin C. Apgar
It was a clear, velvety night, and still, after the wind of the day.
Hidden WaterDane Coolidge
Word Origin and History for velvety
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper