velveteen
pronunciation
How to pronounce velveteen in British English:
UK [ˈvelvətiːn]
How to pronounce velveteen in American English:
US [ ˈvelvətiːn]
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- Noun:
- a usually cotton fabric with a short pile imitating velvet
Word Origin
- velveteen (n.)
- imitation velvet (made with cotton in place of silk), 1776, from velvet + commercial suffix -een (variant of -ine).
Example
- 1. We realized our old computers were the velveteen rabbits of ibooks !
- 2. Bishan county of chongqing ding velveteen one plant .
- 3. Cloud county yunmeng know velveteen factory .
- 4. Of course , like the velveteen rabbit , our venerable laptops had their limits as actual devices after a while as the whole digital world whizzed by them .
- 5. He just slept all day with the velveteen rabbit instead .