plush
/plʌʃ
/noun [mass noun]
A rich fabric of silk, cotton, wool, or a combination of these, with a long, soft nap: [as modifier]: plush upholstery...
- After a few washing they're very soft and flexible but not at all plush like a cotton towel.
- In all there are ten minute top hats of black silk plush and grey felt and one black felt bowler.
- Jordan laughed and sat Blake down on one of the three plush couches in her huge family living room, right next to Maria.
adjective
Richly luxurious and expensive: a plush Mayfair flat...
- We entered the house and I was surprised to find it very plush and expensively furnished.
- We meet in a tiny plush room in a posh London hotel which is the regular haunt for such interviews.
- A plush apartment, a gorgeous girlfriend and a life that opened doors to the best clubs in New York.
Derivatives
plushly
- Its a funny restaurant plushly decorated with many nooks and crannies - tables are on balconies or in turrets or tucked away.
- I was used to genteel plushly carpeted floors, mock Tudor windows and staff who bowed humbly if you passed them in a corridor.
- They looked more like plushly appointed VIP accommodations.
plushness
- Furthermore, a perusal of the entire list of best-picture winners, from 1927 on, gives the impression that this top award was a tribute to plushness, not artistry.
- Christopher let his head fall back against the plushness of the chair.
- Suddenly, we went from the freezing night air to the warm leather plushness of Glen's parents' expensive car.
Origin
Late 16th century: from obsolete French pluche, contraction of peluche, from Old French peluchier 'to pluck', based on Latin pilus 'hair'. The sense 'luxurious' dates from the 1920s.