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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Covered with dense, soft, silky hairs.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Resembling velvet; velvety; soft. Specifically In botany, having a hairy surface which in texture resembles that of velvet, as in Rochea coccinea.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having a layer of soft short hairs, like velvet.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety.

Etymologies

  1. From New Latin velūtīnus, from Medieval Latin velūtum, velvet, from Vulgar Latin *villūtus; see velvet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “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

  • “Shelby had been saving up words for this:velutinous, sybaritic, hedonic, effulgent .”

    Simon & Schuster: Second Glance

  • “Fine texture and weight on the palate though, with well knit, supple, velutinous tannins.”

    CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes)

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  • rolig Lovely word, Yarb! And a great quote! May 11, 2009

  • madmouth it rhymes with glutinous cunt May 11, 2009

  • yarb ...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

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