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Plush definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PLUSH, n. Shag; a species of shaggy cloth or stuff with a velvet nap on one side, composed regularly of a woof of a single thread and a double warp; the one, wool of two threads twisted, the other of goat's or camel's hair. But some plushes are made wholly of worsted; others wholly of hair.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast" [syn: lavish, lucullan, lush, plush, plushy] n
1: a fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle French peluche Date: 1594 a fabric with an even pile longer and less dense than velvet pile II. adjective Date: circa 1645 1. relating to, resembling, or made of plush 2. a. notably luxurious b. rich, full <the plush sound of his saxophone playing> <a plush, ripe wine> • plushly adverb • plushness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. cloth of silk or cotton etc., with a long soft nap. --adj. 1 made of plush. 2 plushy. Derivatives: plushly adv. plushness n. Etymology: obs. F pluche contr. f. peluche f. OF peluchier f. It. peluzzo dimin. of pelo f. L pilus hair

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Plush Plush, n. [F. pluche, peluche (cf. It. peluzzo), fr. L. pilus hair. See pile hair, and cf. Peruke.] A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. --Cowper.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(plusher, plushest) 1. If you describe something as plush, you mean that it is very smart, comfortable, or expensive. ...a plush, four-storey, Georgian house in Mayfair. ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. Plush is a thick soft material like velvet, used especially for carpets and to cover furniture. All the seats were in red plush.

Moby Thesaurus

Babylonian, Corinthian, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, blubber, breeze, butter, classy, clay, costly, cottony, cushion, deluxe, dough, down, eiderdown, elaborate, elegant, extravagant, fancy, feather bed, feathers, fine, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, glorious, grand, grandiose, imposing, impressive, kapok, lavish, luscious, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, noble, opulent, palatial, pillow, plushy, posh, princely, proud, pudding, puff, putty, regal, rich, ritzy, rubber, satin, satinlike, satiny, sericeous, silk, silken, silklike, silky, soft as silk, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swansdown, swell, thistledown, velutinous, velvet, velvetlike, velvety, wax, wool, zephyr