velvety

Synonyymisanakirja

velvety

heikko, peräänantava, samettinen, pehmeä, sileä, sametinpehmeä.

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Englannin sanakirja

velvety englanniksi

1. Like velvet (but not velvet); soft, smooth, soothing. Not necessarily restricted to the sense of touch.

2. 1854, (w), (w), New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, Chapter 4, p. 150, https://archive.org/details/walden01thor

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke the tender limbs.

3. 1918, (w), "The Woodlark" (fragment) in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by (w), London: Humphrey Milford, p. 85, https://archive.org/details/poemsofgerardman030114mbp

Through the velvety wind V-winged

To the nest's nook I balance and buoy

With a sweet joy of a sweet joy,

Sweet, of a sweet, of a sweet joy

Of a sweet—a sweet—sweet—joy.

4. 1951, (w), (w), Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,

As he came down the huge velvety paws caught him as gently as a mother’s arms and set him (right way up, too) on the ground.

5. 1964, (w), The Town Beyond the Wall (1962), translated by Stephen Becker, New York: Atheneum, 1964, p. 104,

Tangier was washed in a velvety bluish twilight.

''The mouse was a warm, velvety weight in my hand.

The crooner had a velvety voice that made the ladies swoon.

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