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velvet

a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface

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Simple sentences

This cloth feels like velvet.
The ravishing beauty queen wearing a blue velvet gown with a plunging neckline struck a pose on the red carpet.

Movie subtitles

Just look at her, all velvet.
It has real velvet upholstery.
I'm on velvet.
And I'll buy her a blue velvet riding habit. She'll love that.
You'll have a red velvet coat with silver buckles on your shoes.
You'll wear velvet and silks, tomorrow or the day after.
In that town, in those days, all the women who wore silk or velvet knew all the other women who wore silk or velvet and everybody knew everybody else's family horse and carriage.
And have you had any difficulty getting into our velvet rope restaurants?
She's got hair like the west wind, eyes like limpid pools. skin like velvet?
For the morning stroll. Green velvet suit by Dujardin.
Straw hat with velvet by Claude Saint-Cyr.
Expensive velvet.
And Velvet?
Anything I retain now is velvet.
You wouldn't think that once I had skin like velvet.
I'm on velvet. I haven't got a thing to lose.
And I'll buy her a blue velvet riding habit.
Cheeks soft as velvet and a form so wondrously rounded.
I hate to tell you, dear, but your skin makes the Rockies look like chiffon velvet.
After that, we'd be on velvet.
It's velvet!
It goes down like a seraph in red velvet tights.
That's cheap for real velvet.
You ain't got enough velvet to see yourself through a bad hand.
My young friend, the velvet glove conceals a hand of steel.
With their velvet doublets and scarlet waistcoats, Their lace, cuffs and jabots.
I'm sure you expected velvet drapes and heathen idols. an altar for human sacrifice at least.
Will the skirt be velvet too?
I love the feel of velvet.
It's about time you wore something besides that old black velvet.
Guido, I thought this black velvet was going to wrinkle.
A velvet purse.
Keeps your hands soft as velvet.

News and current affairs

Havel eventually saw his ideas triumph in the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
Neighboring Slovakia, which was part of Czechoslovakia at the time of the Velvet Revolution, initially said it would accept just 200 Syrian refugees, and that all of them would have to be Christians.
The Czech Republic - everyone's favorite - went from Velvet revolution to muddied reformer.
Ukraine is undergoing a true liberal revolution, akin to the great European liberal revolutions of 1848, and reminiscent of Prague's Velvet revolution of 1989.
Even the pacific Czechs and Slovaks found it easier to develop their respective democratic structures through a velvet divorce rather than be joined in an unworkable marriage.
PRAGUE - The fifteenth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 1989, which brought an end to 41 years of communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia, is an opportunity to ponder the meaning of moral behavior and free action.
Three months later, the Velvet Revolution began in Prague.
The theme music was the Velvet Underground.
Without the drama of that night at the Wall, with all its inspiring visuals, would the Velvet Revolution in Prague have come one week later?

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