any of various clothing or upholstery fabrics of e.g. silk, rayon, or cotton with a short soft dense pile
something suggesting velvet, e.g. in softness or smoothness
softness or smoothness
(used before a noun) resembling or suggesting velvet, esp in smoothness or softness; velvety
the velvet voice of Nat King Cole
the soft downy skin containing blood vessels that envelops and nourishes the developing antlers of deer
chiefly NAmer, slang
a profit or gain beyond ordinary expectation
If one of them is real lucky … and finally gets to be well known and makes some money, well, it's so much velvet then — Louis Armstrong
a gambler's winnings
[Middle English veluet, velvet from early French velu shaggy, ultimately from Latin villus shaggy hair]