plushn.¹adj.

Brit.

/plʌʃ/, U.S.

/pləʃ/

Forms: 1500s– plush, 1500s–1600s plushe, 1600s plusch; Scottish pre-1700 plach, pre-1700 plousch, pre-1700 pluich, pre-1700 plusch, pre-1700 plusche, pre-1700 1700s– plush.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pluche.

Etymology: < Middle French pluche (French pluche ), variant of peluche a velvet-like fabric, originally of silk (1591; French peluche ) < peluchier to pick, to untangle hair (see pluck v.). The French word was also borrowed into other European languages, compare Dutch pluche , pluis (first half of the 17th cent.), German Plüsch (first half of the 17th cent.), Swedish plysch (1627). Compare pelluce n.

A. n.¹

a. A rich fabric of silk, cotton, wool, or other material (or any of these combined), with a long soft nap, used esp. for upholstery, servants' livery, etc.; (also) a similar artificial or synthetic fabric.In quot. 1633 taken as the typical livery of a fool or clown.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with pile or nap > plush

plush1590

pelluce1598

1590 in J. Arnold Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (1988) 264/2 A highe bodyed gowne with a traine of hare colour vellat lyned with Carnacion plushe.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. H4 The trappinges of his horse were pounced and boulstered out with rough plumed siluer plush.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 338 Wast coats of silke plush laying by.

1633 J. Shirley Bird in Cage v. i All places he is free of, and fooles it without blushing At Maskes and Playes, is not the Bayes thrust out, to let the plush in.

1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 71 A fair silk Cassock, richly lin'd with Plush.

1738 J. Munn Observ. Brit. Wool 5 Damasks, Russets, Everlasting, Cantiloons, Worsted Plush..with many other sorts of Plain and Figur'd Stuffs.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 11 As yet black breeches were not, satin smooth, Or velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile.

1826 T. Hood Irish Schoolmaster ix, in Whims & Oddities 124 Below he wears the nether garb of males, Of crimson plush.

1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes iii. 191 Severely plain save for its dark cushion in maroon plush.

1941 B. Miller Farewell Leicester Square ii. 55 The table draped in its pall of dusty plush.

1990 M. Strand Continuous Life 17 You sit in the ruby plush of an ugly chair.

b. In extended use: a natural substance likened to plush, as feathers, fur, vegetation, etc.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with pile or nap > plush > substance resembling

plusha1625

a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta i. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iiii4^v/2 Oh my black swan, silkner then Signets plush.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. xiii. 173 The proud Summer meadow, which to day Weares her greene Plush; and is, to morrow, Hay.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 117/1 Plush [is] the middle of..Marigolds, &c., of some termed..Thrummy heads; of others Hairy heads.

1719 J. Barker Bosvil & Galesia 21 For the soft Meadow Grass seem plush; as when We used to walk together kindly here.

1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds (1874) 56 Eggs, from which emerge..bodies enveloped in a soft plush of grey yarn.

1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 225 Each branch..thickly covered by the leaves, making a rich plush over all the tree.

1998 L. Forbes Bombay Ice (1999) 81 Our canal, a stripe of black between the steaming green plush of the paddies.

†2. In plural. Breeches made of plush, as worn by footmen. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > breeches > other

sausage-hosea1637

buckskina1658

trouser breeches1724

Petershams1819

drab1821

trunks1825

plushes1838

puff breechesc1843

1838 C. Mathews Motley Bk. in Var. Writings (1843) 56 ‘I'd like to have you settle for those plushes and silk vesting!’ modestly suggested a little tailor.

1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxiv. 95 A footman in green plushes and a powdered head.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour i. iii. 9 His lace-bedaubed coat, gold-gartered plushes, stockings, and buckled shoes.

3. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).

a. on (also in) (the) plush: in comfort; in comfortable or prosperous circumstances.In early use sometimes spec. with reference to rail travel (cf. sense A. 3b).

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adjective]

snug1630

cosy1728

comfortable1770

comfy1829

podded1889

on (also in) (the) plush1911

1911 Warren (Pa.) Evening Mirror 3 May 4/2 The trouble men say this beats riding ‘on the plush’ and waiting half a day for a train to return home after doing a short job.

1923 N. Anderson Hobo xiv. 202 By an unknown writer, ‘The Bum on the Rods and the Bum on the Plush’ states the case of labor against capital in the language and accents of the hobo.

1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves ix. 226 He was, to all appearances, absolutely on plush. He ate well, slept well, was happily married.

a1945 T. Dreiser Newspaper Days (1991) lxiii. 450 To sit ‘on the plush’, as one slangy newspaper friend used to describe it, and gaze forth loftily over passing towns and fields.

1945 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 23 Mar. 20/3 The drive would be aimed chiefly against ‘the boys who live in the plush’ rather than the small taxpayer.

1991 P. J. O'Rourke Parl. of Whores (1992) 25 He was turning into a pol, another spoils-mongering highbinder and wire-puller, one more bum on the plush.

b. to ride the plush and variants: to travel in comparative comfort (originally spec. in a Pullman car or similarly appointed railway carriage).

ΚΠ

1911 [see sense A. 3a].

1912 L. Warren Curse of Tramp Life 123 I felt so strange, riding ‘the plush’ after so many long years.

1957 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 25 June My tour ladies rode the plush all the way down the Rhine.

1961 J. O'Hara Assembly 214 Two of my classmates from Baltimore were on the train, but riding day coach. The hell with them, I said. I'll ride the plush.

B. adj.

a. Made of or consisting of plush; covered or upholstered in plush; (of a carpet, etc.) having a thick pile. Formerly also: †wearing plush (obsolete).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing specific material

woolwardc1315

under line (occasionally in line)c1330

fox-furred1592

furred1592

tuftaffeta1598

tissued?16..

satin1603

silk1603

russet1604

tuftaffety1612

plush1615

sericated1623

sheepskinned1628

silken1640

lawny1647

plushed1650

satined1652

harden1654

sackclotheda1656

bearskinned1694

well-furred?1707

furry1717

brocaded1767

flannelled1784

lawned1798

buckskinned1829

corduroyed1832

silked1837

silkened1841

friezy1849

fustianed1849

velveted1850

buffed1863

buckramed1880

craped1880

crapy1891

velveteened1896

mohaired1914

tweeded1921

tweedy1923

leather1961

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [adjective] > types of furniture generally

standing1444

plush1615

Queen Elizabeth1673

occasional1749

Adametic1774

French-polished1836

upholstered1837

Adamish1838

Chippendale1855

Queen Anne1863

knock-down1875

Wellington chest1880

Adamesque1881

Sheraton1883

Hepplewhite1897

quaint1897

bombé1904

lowboy1915

Jacobean1918

overstuffed1922

spool1928

Williamsburg1931

thermed1952

stackable1958

Scandinavian1959

wall-to-wall1959

Populuxe1986

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > with pile or nap > long > plush

plush1615

1615 R. Brathwait Comment upon Two Tales 19 Sir, You never read that Paul ever went in a Plush Cloak.

1631 B. Jonson New Inne Ode to Himself Braue plush, and veluet-men.

1678 G. Harvey Casus Medico-chirurgicus 143 Neither am I a meer Velvetier, that hath nothing but the Plush-jacket on his Back, to shew what Trade he is of.

1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild i. x, in Misc. III. 59 A blue Plush coat,..a smart Sleeve, and a cape.

1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 16 Riding in black plush breeches.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs vii. 28 Pea-green plush inexpressibles.

1887 Times 22 Dec. 16/3 (advt.) Handsome plush rugs, 54 inches by 24 inches, in crimson, gold, or bronze green.

1898 Cosmopolitan June 171/1 Other women from the plush seats on the outer edge of the circle, bent upon the whole moving mass of promenaders the same..gaze.

1935 R. Macaulay Personal Pleasures 135 Pointing us to seats in the middle of an eagerly gazing row of persons, past whom we push, to subside into plush chairs and eagerly gaze too.

1954 Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil 10 Oct. 9 a/1 (advt.) Plush rayon carpet. Very plush pile in choice of beautiful colors.

2004 Straight No Chaser Spring 30/2 The uniform was a twisted white cloth made of plush towelling, along with a sandal of raw leather.

b. spec. (originally and chiefly North American). Designating a children's toy, typically a toy animal, made of plush or a similar fabric and stuffed with a soft filling. Esp. in plush toy.See also plush horse n.

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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > soft toy > [noun]

soft toy1864

plush toy1886

stuffie1938

1886 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 29 Aug. 3/3 (advt.) Wanted—experienced hands to work on plush dogs; also, plenty of room for learners.

1887 Sunday Inter Ocean (Chicago) 20 Nov. 23/2 The plush dog and elephant are reinforced by..other animals now... These plush toys may be had from 25 cents up to $1.

1912 Geyer's Stationer 19 Sept. 9/2 Still another new feature in plush animals are the ‘All Voice’ toys, which growl, squeak or cry, no matter where you press them.

1976–7 Hamley's Catal. 66/3 A fully jointed soft plush teddy.

2008 New Yorker 21 Apr. 90/2 A kind of regression to my childhood bedroom and its community of plush toys: a fantasy of cuddliness.

2. Luxurious, sumptuous; expensively stylish.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [adjective] > sumptuous

richc1275

costful1340

costious1340

costlewa1387

costlya1400

costy?c1430

sumptuous1458

opimec1540

dapatical1623

pollucible1623

opiparous1628

lautitious1648

opimous1656

superb1669

plushy1884

plush1890

Ritzian1908

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective] > luxurious (of things)

delicatec1400

delicious?c1450

fleshpot1535

lascivious1589

nice1621

mollitious1629

luxurious1650

luxuriant1671

voluptuous1816

de luxe1819

plushy1884

plush1890

1890 Harper's Mag. Mar. 649/1 If one were to pass his life in moving in a palace car from one plush hotel to another.

1927 in H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 398/2 ‘Plush’ indicates..stylish.

1946 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 30 Oct. 1/2 The recently established plush eating place.

1971 Guardian 28 May 8/2 It was really plush, with 25 waitresses.

1996 L. Erdrich Tales of Burning Love 37 She hated..leaving her nest, a plush lair with an antique fireplace and tall, sexy vine-covered windows.

Compounds

C1. Parasynthetic.

plush-bottomed adj.

ΚΠ

1901 J. Conrad & F. M. Hueffer Inheritors xiii. 210 I sat on a plush-bottomed gilded chair.

2003 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 19 Mar. 6 The plush-bottomed chairs, with their turned legs and their stiff backs, were for show, not for comfort.

plush-bound adj.

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1882 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 1 Oct. 7/6 In the form of a silk plush bound book.

1997 Chattanooga (Minneapolis) Free Press (Nexis) 5 Oct. j1 No home parlor was complete without its plush-bound card album.

plush-capped adj.

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1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland viii, in Poems (1967) 54 How a lush-kept plush-capped sloe Will, mouthed to flesh-burst, Gush!

2002 Florida Times-Union (Nexis) 23 Nov. v6 Umbrella cockatoos and myna birds add their voices to those of plush-capped jays from New Guinea.

plush-clad adj.

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1869 Putnam's Mag. May 529/1 The actual aristocracy, with its money-bags and its plush-clad flunkeys.

2000 M. Goldstein Landscape with Figures xi. 174 The new Knoedler's soon became a leading contemporary-art gallery, no longer a plush-clad sanctuary where one might find a Titian, a Rubens, a Veronese.

plush-coloured adj.

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1678 T. Jordan Triumphs of London 7 A Sky-colour'd Scarf Fringed with Silver, Plush-colourd Hose.

1934 S. V. Benét James Shore's Daughter i. 18 The elevator, which you worked by pulling a plush-colored rope.

2002 Soap & Cosmetics (Nexis) 1 Jan. 245 The line includes plush-colored mascara in deep purples and metallic bronzes.

plush-covered adj.

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1844 N. P. Willis in New Mirror 6 Apr. i.1/1 The shoe was taken off, and the other set in its place upon the plush-covered leg.

1989 Miller's Collectables Price Guide 1989–90 446/1 A cinnamon plush covered teddy bear, probably Steiff, some wear, growler inoperative.

plush-fitted adj.

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1938 L. MacNeice Zoo 227 Plush-fitted theatres.

plush-framed adj.

ΚΠ

1884 Sunday Gaz. (Fort Wayne, Indiana) 30 Nov. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Nathan, city, plush framed beveled mirror.

1950 F. Lichten Decorative Art Victoria's Era 236 Blackberry vines straggled..across the hand-painted, plush-framed china plaques.

plush-wearing adj.

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1861 Englishwoman's Domestic Mag. 3 43 He paid handsome fees to his boot-cleaning, plush-wearing emissaries.

C2.

plush-copper n. Mineralogy a variety of cuprite occurring as fine hair-like crystals; = chalcotrichite n. at chalco- comb. form .

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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > copper ore > types of

red copper1507

misy1543

grey copper1590

yellow ore1630

grey orea1728

pitch ore1776

red copper ore1776

fahlerz1796

tile-ore1823

cuprite1850

lettsomite1850

velvet copper-ore1850

yellows1851

meneghinite1852

peacock copper1858

peacock ore1858

horseflesh ore1868

plush-copper1881

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 164 Plush-copper, chalcotrichite, a fibrous red copper ore.

1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 127 Cuprite crystals..are usually well-shaped octahedra or cubes, although the variety chalcotrichite (or ‘plush copper’) consists of fine, hair-like fibers.

plush-lined adj. lined with plush; (figurative) comfortable, ‘cushy’.

ΚΠ

1872 Life Colonel James Fisk 161 A rosewood, plush-lined case, containing thirteen specimens of highly-finished Missouri iron.

1946 P. Larkin Jill 184 The competition is very keen, because they're very, very plush-lined jobs.

1993 M. Roberts Daughters of House (BNC) 119 Léonie plucked out the brass weights from their deep plush-lined nests in the wooden box.

plush stitch n. Needlework a kind of stitch in worsted or wool work, forming projecting loops which can be cut so as to make a long nap as in plush.

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1869 Godey's Lady's Bk. Jan. 86 (heading) Foot cushion in plush stitch.

2002 Piecework Nov.–Dec. 30/1 The plush stitch produces loops that are later cut, combed, and sculpted with scissors to give the subject of the needlework the semblance of a third dimension.

plush velvet n. a kind of plush with a short nap, resembling velvet.

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1795 D. W. Barker Recital of Intelligence 117 Two Cases of Tortoise-shell, 3 Casks of returned Merchandize, and 5 Bales of Plush Velvet.

1851 G. Borrow Lavengro II. xxii. 196 A man in a long loose tunic of a stuff striped with black and yellow; breeches of plush velvet, silk stockings, and shoes with silver buckles.

1993 Harper's Mag. Feb. 46 Outside, very long cars are passing again with landau roofs and plush velvet.

plush velveteen n. a cotton fabric imitating silk plush.

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1890 Cent. Dict. 4571/2 Plush-velveteen.

1985 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 30 May 34/4 (advt.) Toss Pillows..choose quilted chintz, plush velveteen or embroidered type.

plush-weaver n. a weaver who produces plush.

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1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. 252 The plush-weavers..took into consideration a general stoppage of the looms.

2002 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 7 Dec. b5 Mr. Sylvestre had been a plush weaver for the former Joan Plush Co. for many years before retiring 23 years ago.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	plush
释义	plushn.¹adj. Brit. /plʌʃ/, U.S. /pləʃ/ Forms: 1500s– plush, 1500s–1600s plushe, 1600s plusch; Scottish pre-1700 plach, pre-1700 plousch, pre-1700 pluich, pre-1700 plusch, pre-1700 plusche, pre-1700 1700s– plush. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pluche. Etymology: < Middle French pluche (French pluche ), variant of peluche a velvet-like fabric, originally of silk (1591; French peluche ) < peluchier to pick, to untangle hair (see pluck v.). The French word was also borrowed into other European languages, compare Dutch pluche , pluis (first half of the 17th cent.), German Plüsch (first half of the 17th cent.), Swedish plysch (1627). Compare pelluce n. A. n.¹ 1. a. A rich fabric of silk, cotton, wool, or other material (or any of these combined), with a long soft nap, used esp. for upholstery, servants' livery, etc.; (also) a similar artificial or synthetic fabric.In quot. 1633 taken as the typical livery of a fool or clown. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with pile or nap > plush plush1590 pelluce1598 1590 in J. Arnold Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (1988) 264/2 A highe bodyed gowne with a traine of hare colour vellat lyned with Carnacion plushe. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. H4 The trappinges of his horse were pounced and boulstered out with rough plumed siluer plush. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 338 Wast coats of silke plush laying by. 1633 J. Shirley Bird in Cage v. i All places he is free of, and fooles it without blushing At Maskes and Playes, is not the Bayes thrust out, to let the plush in. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 71 A fair silk Cassock, richly lin'd with Plush. 1738 J. Munn Observ. Brit. Wool 5 Damasks, Russets, Everlasting, Cantiloons, Worsted Plush..with many other sorts of Plain and Figur'd Stuffs. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 11 As yet black breeches were not, satin smooth, Or velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. 1826 T. Hood Irish Schoolmaster ix, in Whims & Oddities 124 Below he wears the nether garb of males, Of crimson plush. 1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes iii. 191 Severely plain save for its dark cushion in maroon plush. 1941 B. Miller Farewell Leicester Square ii. 55 The table draped in its pall of dusty plush. 1990 M. Strand Continuous Life 17 You sit in the ruby plush of an ugly chair. b. In extended use: a natural substance likened to plush, as feathers, fur, vegetation, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with pile or nap > plush > substance resembling plusha1625 a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta i. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iiii4^v/2 Oh my black swan, silkner then Signets plush. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. xiii. 173 The proud Summer meadow, which to day Weares her greene Plush; and is, to morrow, Hay. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 117/1 Plush [is] the middle of..Marigolds, &c., of some termed..Thrummy heads; of others Hairy heads. 1719 J. Barker Bosvil & Galesia 21 For the soft Meadow Grass seem plush; as when We used to walk together kindly here. 1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds (1874) 56 Eggs, from which emerge..bodies enveloped in a soft plush of grey yarn. 1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 225 Each branch..thickly covered by the leaves, making a rich plush over all the tree. 1998 L. Forbes Bombay Ice (1999) 81 Our canal, a stripe of black between the steaming green plush of the paddies. †2. In plural. Breeches made of plush, as worn by footmen. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > breeches > other sausage-hosea1637 buckskina1658 trouser breeches1724 Petershams1819 drab1821 trunks1825 plushes1838 puff breechesc1843 1838 C. Mathews Motley Bk. in Var. Writings (1843) 56 ‘I'd like to have you settle for those plushes and silk vesting!’ modestly suggested a little tailor. 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxiv. 95 A footman in green plushes and a powdered head. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour i. iii. 9 His lace-bedaubed coat, gold-gartered plushes, stockings, and buckled shoes. 3. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). a. on (also in) (the) plush: in comfort; in comfortable or prosperous circumstances.In early use sometimes spec. with reference to rail travel (cf. sense A. 3b). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adjective] snug1630 cosy1728 comfortable1770 comfy1829 podded1889 on (also in) (the) plush1911 1911 Warren (Pa.) Evening Mirror 3 May 4/2 The trouble men say this beats riding ‘on the plush’ and waiting half a day for a train to return home after doing a short job. 1923 N. Anderson Hobo xiv. 202 By an unknown writer, ‘The Bum on the Rods and the Bum on the Plush’ states the case of labor against capital in the language and accents of the hobo. 1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves ix. 226 He was, to all appearances, absolutely on plush. He ate well, slept well, was happily married. a1945 T. Dreiser Newspaper Days (1991) lxiii. 450 To sit ‘on the plush’, as one slangy newspaper friend used to describe it, and gaze forth loftily over passing towns and fields. 1945 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 23 Mar. 20/3 The drive would be aimed chiefly against ‘the boys who live in the plush’ rather than the small taxpayer. 1991 P. J. O'Rourke Parl. of Whores (1992) 25 He was turning into a pol, another spoils-mongering highbinder and wire-puller, one more bum on the plush. b. to ride the plush and variants: to travel in comparative comfort (originally spec. in a Pullman car or similarly appointed railway carriage). ΚΠ 1911 [see sense A. 3a]. 1912 L. Warren Curse of Tramp Life 123 I felt so strange, riding ‘the plush’ after so many long years. 1957 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 25 June My tour ladies rode the plush all the way down the Rhine. 1961 J. O'Hara Assembly 214 Two of my classmates from Baltimore were on the train, but riding day coach. The hell with them, I said. I'll ride the plush. B. adj. 1. a. Made of or consisting of plush; covered or upholstered in plush; (of a carpet, etc.) having a thick pile. Formerly also: †wearing plush (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing specific material woolwardc1315 under line (occasionally in line)c1330 fox-furred1592 furred1592 tuftaffeta1598 tissued?16.. satin1603 silk1603 russet1604 tuftaffety1612 plush1615 sericated1623 sheepskinned1628 silken1640 lawny1647 plushed1650 satined1652 harden1654 sackclotheda1656 bearskinned1694 well-furred?1707 furry1717 brocaded1767 flannelled1784 lawned1798 buckskinned1829 corduroyed1832 silked1837 silkened1841 friezy1849 fustianed1849 velveted1850 buffed1863 buckramed1880 craped1880 crapy1891 velveteened1896 mohaired1914 tweeded1921 tweedy1923 leather1961 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [adjective] > types of furniture generally standing1444 plush1615 Queen Elizabeth1673 occasional1749 Adametic1774 French-polished1836 upholstered1837 Adamish1838 Chippendale1855 Queen Anne1863 knock-down1875 Wellington chest1880 Adamesque1881 Sheraton1883 Hepplewhite1897 quaint1897 bombé1904 lowboy1915 Jacobean1918 overstuffed1922 spool1928 Williamsburg1931 thermed1952 stackable1958 Scandinavian1959 wall-to-wall1959 Populuxe1986 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > with pile or nap > long > plush plush1615 1615 R. Brathwait Comment upon Two Tales 19 Sir, You never read that Paul ever went in a Plush Cloak. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne Ode to Himself Braue plush, and veluet-men. 1678 G. Harvey Casus Medico-chirurgicus 143 Neither am I a meer Velvetier, that hath nothing but the Plush-jacket on his Back, to shew what Trade he is of. 1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild i. x, in Misc. III. 59 A blue Plush coat,..a smart Sleeve, and a cape. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 16 Riding in black plush breeches. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs vii. 28 Pea-green plush inexpressibles. 1887 Times 22 Dec. 16/3 (advt.) Handsome plush rugs, 54 inches by 24 inches, in crimson, gold, or bronze green. 1898 Cosmopolitan June 171/1 Other women from the plush seats on the outer edge of the circle, bent upon the whole moving mass of promenaders the same..gaze. 1935 R. Macaulay Personal Pleasures 135 Pointing us to seats in the middle of an eagerly gazing row of persons, past whom we push, to subside into plush chairs and eagerly gaze too. 1954 Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil 10 Oct. 9 a/1 (advt.) Plush rayon carpet. Very plush pile in choice of beautiful colors. 2004 Straight No Chaser Spring 30/2 The uniform was a twisted white cloth made of plush towelling, along with a sandal of raw leather. b. spec. (originally and chiefly North American). Designating a children's toy, typically a toy animal, made of plush or a similar fabric and stuffed with a soft filling. Esp. in plush toy.See also plush horse n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > soft toy > [noun] soft toy1864 plush toy1886 stuffie1938 1886 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 29 Aug. 3/3 (advt.) Wanted—experienced hands to work on plush dogs; also, plenty of room for learners. 1887 Sunday Inter Ocean (Chicago) 20 Nov. 23/2 The plush dog and elephant are reinforced by..other animals now... These plush toys may be had from 25 cents up to $1. 1912 Geyer's Stationer 19 Sept. 9/2 Still another new feature in plush animals are the ‘All Voice’ toys, which growl, squeak or cry, no matter where you press them. 1976–7 Hamley's Catal. 66/3 A fully jointed soft plush teddy. 2008 New Yorker 21 Apr. 90/2 A kind of regression to my childhood bedroom and its community of plush toys: a fantasy of cuddliness. 2. Luxurious, sumptuous; expensively stylish. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [adjective] > sumptuous richc1275 costful1340 costious1340 costlewa1387 costlya1400 costy?c1430 sumptuous1458 opimec1540 dapatical1623 pollucible1623 opiparous1628 lautitious1648 opimous1656 superb1669 plushy1884 plush1890 Ritzian1908 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective] > luxurious (of things) delicatec1400 delicious?c1450 fleshpot1535 lascivious1589 nice1621 mollitious1629 luxurious1650 luxuriant1671 voluptuous1816 de luxe1819 plushy1884 plush1890 1890 Harper's Mag. Mar. 649/1 If one were to pass his life in moving in a palace car from one plush hotel to another. 1927 in H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 398/2 ‘Plush’ indicates..stylish. 1946 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 30 Oct. 1/2 The recently established plush eating place. 1971 Guardian 28 May 8/2 It was really plush, with 25 waitresses. 1996 L. Erdrich Tales of Burning Love 37 She hated..leaving her nest, a plush lair with an antique fireplace and tall, sexy vine-covered windows. Compounds C1. Parasynthetic. plush-bottomed adj. ΚΠ 1901 J. Conrad & F. M. Hueffer Inheritors xiii. 210 I sat on a plush-bottomed gilded chair. 2003 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 19 Mar. 6 The plush-bottomed chairs, with their turned legs and their stiff backs, were for show, not for comfort. plush-bound adj. ΚΠ 1882 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 1 Oct. 7/6 In the form of a silk plush bound book. 1997 Chattanooga (Minneapolis) Free Press (Nexis) 5 Oct. j1 No home parlor was complete without its plush-bound card album. plush-capped adj. ΚΠ 1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland viii, in Poems (1967) 54 How a lush-kept plush-capped sloe Will, mouthed to flesh-burst, Gush! 2002 Florida Times-Union (Nexis) 23 Nov. v6 Umbrella cockatoos and myna birds add their voices to those of plush-capped jays from New Guinea. plush-clad adj. ΚΠ 1869 Putnam's Mag. May 529/1 The actual aristocracy, with its money-bags and its plush-clad flunkeys. 2000 M. Goldstein Landscape with Figures xi. 174 The new Knoedler's soon became a leading contemporary-art gallery, no longer a plush-clad sanctuary where one might find a Titian, a Rubens, a Veronese. plush-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1678 T. Jordan Triumphs of London 7 A Sky-colour'd Scarf Fringed with Silver, Plush-colourd Hose. 1934 S. V. Benét James Shore's Daughter i. 18 The elevator, which you worked by pulling a plush-colored rope. 2002 Soap & Cosmetics (Nexis) 1 Jan. 245 The line includes plush-colored mascara in deep purples and metallic bronzes. plush-covered adj. ΚΠ 1844 N. P. Willis in New Mirror 6 Apr. i.1/1 The shoe was taken off, and the other set in its place upon the plush-covered leg. 1989 Miller's Collectables Price Guide 1989–90 446/1 A cinnamon plush covered teddy bear, probably Steiff, some wear, growler inoperative. plush-fitted adj. ΚΠ 1938 L. MacNeice Zoo 227 Plush-fitted theatres. plush-framed adj. ΚΠ 1884 Sunday Gaz. (Fort Wayne, Indiana) 30 Nov. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Nathan, city, plush framed beveled mirror. 1950 F. Lichten Decorative Art Victoria's Era 236 Blackberry vines straggled..across the hand-painted, plush-framed china plaques. plush-wearing adj. ΚΠ 1861 Englishwoman's Domestic Mag. 3 43 He paid handsome fees to his boot-cleaning, plush-wearing emissaries. C2. plush-copper n. Mineralogy a variety of cuprite occurring as fine hair-like crystals; = chalcotrichite n. at chalco- comb. form . ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > copper ore > types of red copper1507 misy1543 grey copper1590 yellow ore1630 grey orea1728 pitch ore1776 red copper ore1776 fahlerz1796 tile-ore1823 cuprite1850 lettsomite1850 velvet copper-ore1850 yellows1851 meneghinite1852 peacock copper1858 peacock ore1858 horseflesh ore1868 plush-copper1881 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 164 Plush-copper, chalcotrichite, a fibrous red copper ore. 1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 127 Cuprite crystals..are usually well-shaped octahedra or cubes, although the variety chalcotrichite (or ‘plush copper’) consists of fine, hair-like fibers. plush-lined adj. lined with plush; (figurative) comfortable, ‘cushy’. ΚΠ 1872 Life Colonel James Fisk 161 A rosewood, plush-lined case, containing thirteen specimens of highly-finished Missouri iron. 1946 P. Larkin Jill 184 The competition is very keen, because they're very, very plush-lined jobs. 1993 M. Roberts Daughters of House (BNC) 119 Léonie plucked out the brass weights from their deep plush-lined nests in the wooden box. plush stitch n. Needlework a kind of stitch in worsted or wool work, forming projecting loops which can be cut so as to make a long nap as in plush. ΚΠ 1869 Godey's Lady's Bk. Jan. 86 (heading) Foot cushion in plush stitch. 2002 Piecework Nov.–Dec. 30/1 The plush stitch produces loops that are later cut, combed, and sculpted with scissors to give the subject of the needlework the semblance of a third dimension. plush velvet n. a kind of plush with a short nap, resembling velvet. ΚΠ 1795 D. W. Barker Recital of Intelligence 117 Two Cases of Tortoise-shell, 3 Casks of returned Merchandize, and 5 Bales of Plush Velvet. 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro II. xxii. 196 A man in a long loose tunic of a stuff striped with black and yellow; breeches of plush velvet, silk stockings, and shoes with silver buckles. 1993 Harper's Mag. Feb. 46 Outside, very long cars are passing again with landau roofs and plush velvet. plush velveteen n. a cotton fabric imitating silk plush. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. 4571/2 Plush-velveteen. 1985 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 30 May 34/4 (advt.) Toss Pillows..choose quilted chintz, plush velveteen or embroidered type. plush-weaver n. a weaver who produces plush. ΚΠ 1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. 252 The plush-weavers..took into consideration a general stoppage of the looms. 2002 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 7 Dec. b5 Mr. Sylvestre had been a plush weaver for the former Joan Plush Co. for many years before retiring 23 years ago. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). plushn.² Brit. /plʌʃ/, U.S. /pləʃ/ Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: English overplush , surplush , overplus n., surplus n. Etymology: Probably short for overplush or surplush, respectively variants of overplus n. and surplus n. Navy slang. Now chiefly historical. A surplus, esp. that remaining after the rationing of grog or gravy amongst a ship's crew. ΚΠ 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 20/1 I won't be sung out of my grog by ere a one. I tells thee once more, that I'se only the plush, and that I be's entitled to, an't I now? c1847 J. T. Downey Cruise of Portsmouth (1963) 219 I'll give you a thimble full when I serve out Grog tomorrow if there's any plush. 1911 ‘Guns Q.F.C.’ & ‘Phyl Theeluker’ Middle Watch Musings 97 Well, there ain't no chance of even makin' any rightful plush in nothin'. 1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 654/1 Official instructions were that any plush after the daily issue was to be poured into the scuppers and allowed to run overboard to prevent anyone getting more than his ration, but seamen were adept at saving such waste. 1977 P. O'Brian Mauritius Command ix. 241 Only half the grog will be served out this spell: and no plush allowed. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). plushv. Brit. /plʌʃ/, U.S. /pləʃ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: plush n.¹ Etymology: < plush n.¹ rare. †1. transitive. To provide (a footman or the like) with a livery of plush. to plush it: to act as footman. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [verb (intransitive)] > act as liveried footman to plush it1860 1860 R. S. Surtees Plain or Ringlets? lxxv. 290 All that was forgotten now, save when they plushed or powdered their footman, set up a dinner bell, or committed any other act of saltation against the peace of their longer retired neighbours' pride and dignity. 1867 W. H. L. Tester Poems 54 He plush'd it there for many a day. 2. intransitive. Of velvet: to have the nap crushed or flattened by pressure or because of retained moisture. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [verb (intransitive)] > other shrink1483 tattera1616 intermat1904 plush1904 1904 Daily Chron. 1 Sept. 8/5 Corduroy velvet would certainly look well, but it would be less suitable than the woollen on account of its greater weight and liability to ‘plush’ with damp or pressure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹adj.1590n.²1822v.1860
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