velveteen

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TikToks and posts on Instagram overflow with scenes of darkly lit, heavily velveted bedrooms or stone castles and verdant grasslands, all with women in flowing gowns.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

This time the back wall is to be velveted in absorbent fiber glass, the facing of the three terraces reshaped, the stage equipped with portable risers for the silent double basses.

From Time Magazine Archive

The white-robed, white-gloved, white-carnationed Negro choir on the gold-&-blue velveted stage let go with Hallelujah!

From Time Magazine Archive

And she crimsoned with pride, and her hard, thin lips velveted with beauty.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

Of hats, note that some are shorn, and others shaggy, some velveted, others covered with taffeties, and others with satin.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony