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Base :: Base (n.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower..

Nap :: Nap (n.) The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet..

Plush :: Plush (n.) A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet..

Pile :: Pile (n.) A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet..

Moquette :: Moquette (n.) A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.

Velveting :: Velveting (n.) The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.

Velvet :: Velvet (n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back..

Velvetbreast :: Velvetbreast (n.) The goosander.

Velvet :: Velvet (v. t.) To make like, or cover with, velvet..

Dress :: Dress (n.) A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress..

Velvet :: Velvet (n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.

Flock :: Flock (sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose..

Stilt :: Stilpnomelane (n.) A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina..

Lure :: Lure (n.) A velvet smoothing brush.

Velveteen :: Velveteen (n.) A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet..

Thickset :: Thickset (n.) A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen..

Terry :: Terry (n.) A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings..

Corduroy :: Corduroy (n.) A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges..

Wilton Carpet :: Wilton carpet () A kind of carpet woven with loops like the Brussels, but differing from it in having the loops cut so as to form an elastic velvet pile; -- so called because made originally at Wilton, England..

Villus :: Villus (n.) Fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet..

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