a. [f. VELVET sb.] Resembling (that of) velvet.
1677. Miége, Fr. Dict., I. Velouté,… made velvet-like.
1770. Pennant, Brit. Zool., IV. 4. Velvet Crab with the thorax quinquedentated; body covered with short brown velvet-like pile.
1796. Withering, Brit. Pl. (ed. 3), II. 134. The whole plant [is] of a velvet-like softness.
1819. Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., XI. I. 173. The greater portion of the head covered by short and serrated, velvet-like feathers.
1829. Loudon, Encycl. Plants (1836), 615. The species are border flowers, in much esteem for their velvet-like leaves.
1845. G. Dodd, Brit. Manuf., Ser. IV. 109. The rib or raised part … is cut … so as to form a velvet-like pile.
