[f. VELVETY a.] The quality of resembling velvet in smoothness, etc.
1852. Morning Chron., 2 June, 5/1. The rich velvetiness of the grapes [in a fruit painting] in admirable.
1882. Good Literature, 6 May, 142. In America, where … black women have that happy Ethiopian velvetiness of cuticle.
1889. Mary E. Carter, Mrs. Severn, I. I. Prol. 10. The dense velvetiness of the furze.
