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What does velvet mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word velvet? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
  2. Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
  3. (rare) A female chinchilla; a sow.
  4. (slang) The drug dextromethorphan.
  5. (slang) Money acquired by gambling.
Verb
  1. To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
  2. (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
  3. To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To soften; to mitigate.
Adjective
  1. Made of velvet.
  2. Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
  3. (politics) peaceful, carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
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