Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A textile fabric having a thick soft nap; velvet or velveteen.
  • noun A pad of silk or plush used by hatters for smoothing and giving a luster to the surface of hats. Also called looer, lure.
  • In hat-making, to smooth off or dress with a velure, as the nap of a silk hat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Velvet.
  • noun A substance resembling velvet.

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  • noun dated A fabric similar to velvet

Etymologies

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Alteration of velour

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Examples

  • Over the pictures, the vases, the old brown plush rocking-chairs and the stool, over the three gilt chairs, over the new chintz-covered easy chair and the gray velure sofa -- over everything everywhere, was the familiar coating of smoke grime.

    Alice Adams 1921

  • Over the pictures, the vases, the old brown plush rocking-chairs and the stool, over the three gilt chairs, over the new chintz-covered easy chair and the gray velure sofa -- over everything everywhere, was the familiar coating of smoke grime.

    Alice Adams Booth Tarkington 1907

  • When he came, Mistress Marian was standing i 'th' great door o 'th' castle, in her hawking gown o 'green velure cloth laced all with silver cord; her plumed hat was on her curls, and her hawk, Beryl, on her fist.

    A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

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  • Long gone is the beastly couture

    That wrapped up the swells in pellure.

    Farewell to the feathers

    And exotic leathers,

    Replaced now with sinless velure.

    May 8, 2018