What is "velour"

Usage examples of "velour".

Henri IV en Apollon, et un grand lit a baldaquin du dix-septieme siecle avec pentes, courtines et plafond en velours cisele de Genes.

Il voulait ressembler a Rubens et, pour y parvenir, il portait de longs cheveux, la barbe en pointe, un feutre a larges bords, un pourpoint de velours et un grand manteau.

Lying on the ground, he activated the concealed flybelt beneath his velour, lifted, and drifted silently through the cool air toward the city.

Sitting back on the cigarette-burned red velour, I started to pick at the label on the Pils bottle.

Carl Vespa did not dress in Sopranos-style velour or shiny, sealant-coated suits.

Purplestar sweaters, antique pendants, beaded chokers, organic nuts, horoscopes, sciencefiction movies, fourdollar transparent soap, big English cars, Mexican villas, ecology, pink rolling paper, brownies, seaweed with my pork chops, soy noodles, dacron, rayon, orlon acrylic, Fortrel polyester, Lycra spandex, leather, vinyl, suede, velvet, velours, canvas.

There was a coterie of wardersa gloved private gatekeeper in a blue uniform with the sanatorium crest, plus a sturdy middle-aged plainclothesman in a sensible vested suit and a greatcoat and a velour hat, and a bright young fellow in a sportcoat and topper whom Michaelmas recognized as a minor UNAC press staff man.

There is one major street lined with donut shops, hardware stores, fast-food establishments, beauty salons, and furniture stores that feature veneer and laminate, velour and Naugahyde.

The dark gray overstuffed velour couch and matching chair, the green-and-orange rug the lady she cleaned for on Tuesdays had been throwing out, the mahogany-veneer bedroom set that had been Willy's mother's bridal furniture.

Can't see clearly no mirror on the wall over there a long time ago, when we rented this place to an actress one summer, and that purple velour chair there in the corner with the long tear down the cushion where her dog, she had a German shepherd dog where it tore a streak down the cushion too good a story to have it repaired but the, but I, not seeing too well get a little disoriented sometimes but this room is, when we rented out the whole place here that year but it's not the change no but how fast the changes come now, not even the weeks the years but how many different lives you've lived, first step that counts yes I always took the wrong one like being five, ten, twenty different people wouldn't know each other if they met in the street .

He sits with his back to the wall, all the windows onto the square being ranged to his left behind their net curtains and buff velour drapes.

He opened the razor's leatherette case: nickel-plate gleamed against a bed of violet velour.

He looked enormous in a bright-tan belted polo coat and wide-brimmed black velour hat pulled low over his eyes.

The chief in the velours hat gave himself an air of boredom, did a little shadow boxing, which made the long sleeves of his raincoat slide up to his elbows, and held up his wristwatch in the moonlight.

He wore rubbers over his patent-leather shoes, an old coat, and a velour slouch hat.