plush

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Made out comfortable furry plush which is good to feel.

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  1. noun A fabric of silk, rayon, cotton, or other material, having a thick deep pile.
  2. adjective Made of or covered with plush.
  3. adjective Luxurious.

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  • The carpet was plush, the bar stocked with the best labels, and a vase filled with pink roses rested on a glass-topped coffee table. —  Jackson, Lisa - See How she dies 2
  • The offices were newly plush, the receptionist newly professional, her short dark hair styled and lacquered. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 02 - August 1997
  • Up, and this morning put on my new, fine, coloured cloth suit, with my cloake lined with plush, which is a dear and noble suit, costing me about L17 Let us remember the exchange rate of between 500 to 1000 dollars US (year 2000), per Pound. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Oct/Nov 1664
  • Gran herself had possessed photograph-frames in silver filigree on plush, and had cherished a photogravure of The Stag at Bay . —  The Case of William Smith - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 14: 1948
  • The interior was plush, and there was a coverlet and pillow inside. —  Man from Mundania
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French pluche, variant of peluche, from pelucher, to become fluffy, shed, from Old French peluchier, to pluck, probably from Vulgar Latin *piluccāre; see pluck.

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  1. Formerly also pelluce; = Dutch pluis, a tuft or lock of wool or hair, plush, = German plusch = Swedish plys, plysch = Danish plyds, from French pluche, peluche, shag, plush, = Spanish peluzza, pelussa, pelusa = Portuguese pellucia, plush, nap, =Italian peluzzo, pelucio, dial, plusia, plush, nap, down; from Middle Latin as if *pilucius, hairy, shaggy, from Latin pilus, hair: see pile, and cf. peruke and pluck.
  2. plush, n.
 

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