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velveteen|vɛlvəˈtiːn|
Also 8 velvatean.
[f. velvet n. Hence F. velvetine.]
1. a. A fabric having the appearance or surface of velvet, but made from cotton in place of silk.
1776Specif. Woolstenholme's Patent No. 1123, For his new kind of goods called velvateans, being an improvement on velveretts. 1795J. Aikin Manchester 299 Velvets, velveteens, thicksets. 1843Ld. Melbourne in Benson & Esher Lett. Q. Victoria (1908) I. 467 George Byng came the other morning in a waistcoat of Peel's velveteen. 1860All Year Round No. 53. 63 The barragons and fustians,..dimities and velveteens, for which Bolton was famous. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlew. 511/1 Velveteen, a description of fustian, made of twilled cotton, and having a raised pile, and of finer cotton, and better finish than the latter.
b. attrib. Made of this material.
1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 200 He..generally sticks to his velveteen jacket. 1841Lytton Nt. & Morn. i. i, A man..plainly clad in a velveteen shooting⁓jacket. 1860All Year Round No. 57. 156 He wore a fur cap, and shorts, and was of the velveteen race, velveteeny. 1887Doyle Study in Scarlet (1892) 26 A railway porter in his velveteen uniform.
c. A dress of velveteen.
1873Young Englishwoman Aug. 414/1 Would a black velveteen be suitable for the autumn? 1932‘E. M. Delafield’ Thank Heaven Fasting ii. i. 156 Run upstairs and put on the green velveteen. It suits you.
2. pl.
a. Trousers or knickerbockers made of velveteen.
1863Kingsley Water-Bab. i, He..thought of the fine times coming, when he would be a man,..and wear velveteens and ankle-jacks. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. ii, ‘The man,’ Mortimer goes on,..‘was only son of a tremendous old rascal who made his money by Dust’. ‘Red velveteens and a bell?’ the gloomy Eugene inquires.
b. transf. A gamekeeper (as commonly wearing velveteen clothes).
1857Hughes Tom Brown i. ix, What business is that of yours, old Velveteens? 1880Carnegie Pract. Trap. 23 Be it known that Velveteens placed those ‘brammels’ there in order that we might move them.
Hence velveˈteened a., dressed in velveteen; also velveˈteeny a. (nonce-wd.).
1860Velveteeny [see sense 1 b above]. 1896Daily News 10 Nov. 2/1 In the procession thereafter were the velveteened foresters. |