- velvetiness
- vel·vet·i·ness
English syllables. 2014.
velvetiness
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velvetiness — ˈvelvə̇d.ēnə̇s noun ( es) : quality of velvet : velvety appearance, feeling, or taste … Useful english dictionary
velvety — velvetiness, n. /vel vi tee/, adj. 1. suggestive of or resembling velvet; smooth; soft: velvety rose petals; a velvety voice; a velvety cream sauce. 2. (of liquor) smooth tasting; mild; mellow: a velvety Scotch. [1745 55; VELVET + Y1] * * * … Universalium
velouté — noun Etymology: French, literally, velvetiness, from Middle French velluté, from Old Occitan velut velvety, from Vulgar Latin *villutus Date: 1830 a soup or sauce made of chicken, veal, or fish stock and cream and thickened with butter and flour … New Collegiate Dictionary
velouté — /veuh looh tay /, n. a smooth white sauce made with meat, poultry, or fish stock. Also called velouté sauce. [ < F: lit., velvety, velvetiness, MF velluté, equiv. to vellut ( < Pr velut VELVET) + é ATE1] * * * … Universalium
daintiness — Synonyms and related words: acquired taste, airiness, amiable weakness, appreciation of excellence, ascent, asepsis, breakability, brittleness, bubbliness, buoyancy, changeableness, choiceness, civilized taste, civilizedness, cleanliness, cleanly … Moby Thesaurus
delicacy — Synonyms and related words: absoluteness, accommodatingness, accuracy, acquired taste, affectivity, agreeableness, airiness, airy texture, allergy, ambrosia, amiable weakness, anaphylaxis, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciation… … Moby Thesaurus
down — Synonyms and related words: COD, Vandyke, actively, adown, ailing, air, alkali flat, all up with, alluvial plain, anthill, backset, bad, barrow, basin, beard, beat, beaten, beaver, bedfast, bedridden, below, below par, best, bested, blow down,… … Moby Thesaurus
evenness — Synonyms and related words: abnegation, abstinence, accordance, balance, bilateral symmetry, calm, calmness, clockwork regularity, coequality, coextension, conformity, congruity, conservatism, consistency, consonance, constancy, constraint,… … Moby Thesaurus
fluff — Synonyms and related words: Irish bull, aerate, air, anacoluthon, bad job, ball up, bevue, bloomer, blooper, blow, blubber, blunder, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo boo, boot, botch, breeze, bubble, bull, bungle, butter,… … Moby Thesaurus
fuzz — Synonyms and related words: Dogberry, John Law, air, bluecoat, bobby, bubble, bull, chaff, chip, cobweb, confuse, cop, copper, cork, daintiness, delicacy, dick, down, downiness, dust, eiderdown, ether, fairy, feather, filminess, fine grainedness … Moby Thesaurus
