What is "velvets"

Usage examples of "velvets".

You can imagine what those velvets will feel like under the heat of the footlights.

I want to see you in silks and velvets, not cotton dresses with an apron around your waist.

The street-lamps were fresh lit, and the first revelers taking to the streets, their numbers thinner than I remembered, but still glorious in their silks and velvets, brocade and jewels shimmering in the lamplight.

There would be no cotton-duck gowns from a mail-order catalog trailing over the fine inlay work of his floors, no coarse dark cottons displayed against his velvets and damask satins.

Londoners, she saw that their own clothes, the city clothes that Deborah had made with so much careful love, were simple and drab compared to the rich jeweled velvets, the sumptuous furs and silks on the backs of so many men and women riding proudly into the city.

Aveline had told her to do, but then she had found that moths and fleas were much less likely to attach to the figured velvets and damasks because of the smell.

A bulky figure wrapped in furs and velvets slowly and carefully made its way to her.