Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with dense, soft, silky hairs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling velvet; velvety; soft.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a layer of soft short hairs, like velvet.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin velūtīnus, from Medieval Latin velūtum, velvet, from Vulgar Latin *villūtus; see velvet.]
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Examples
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The tea menu is a tiny piece of delight, with descriptions that blithely use words like "velutinous" and "viridescent" and "vegetal" to describe their oolongs and whites and blacks.
Archive 2008-10-01 Megan Kurashige 2008
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The tea menu is a tiny piece of delight, with descriptions that blithely use words like "velutinous" and "viridescent" and "vegetal" to describe their oolongs and whites and blacks.
surrounded by books Megan Kurashige 2008
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Shelby had been saving up words for this:velutinous, sybaritic, hedonic, effulgent .
Second Glance Jodi Picoult 2003
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Fine texture and weight on the palate though, with well knit, supple, velutinous tannins.
yarb commented on the word velutinous
...I would really live what I had dreamed of; tongue a tender ear; a velutinous cunt, kiss and compose with one mouth, in the same breath...
- William Gass, The Tunnel
May 11, 2009
madmouth commented on the word velutinous
it rhymes with glutinous cunt
May 11, 2009
rolig commented on the word velutinous
Lovely word, Yarb! And a great quote!
May 11, 2009