velvetry

velvetry

English

Etymology

velvet +‎ -ry

Noun

velvetry (countable and uncountable, plural velvetries)

1. Garments or furnishings made from velvet.
   • 1862, Charles Mackay, The Gouty Philosopher (page 170)

     All their ribandry and gauzery — their silkery and velvetry — were draggled, and limp, and shapeless […]

   • 1967, Richard S. Prather, Gat Heat (page 108)

     And it was from behind those draped velvetries that the sounds came, a buzzing, as of conversation.

   • 2009, Terry Midkiff, World is Woman (page 34)

     Sitting around on sofas and velvetries with their flutes and their papers and their laughter.