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1653, François Rabelais, Pantagruel (1532), translated by Thomas Urquhart, in The Works of Rabelais, London: Chatto & Windus, 1873, Chapter 14, p. 33, https://archive.org/details/worksofrabelais00raberich " […] of hats, note that some are shorn, and others shaggy, some velveted, others covered with taffities, and others with satin […] "
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[…] this yellow-starched and velveted old hag […]
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Down there the "furriner" would have seen only the rough course of the creek between moss-velveted and shaded bowlders of titanic proportions.
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1965, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856), translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling and Paul de Man, New York: Norton, 2005, p. 289, The tips of the trees were velveted with a pale brown dust, dotted irregularly here and there as though there had been a snowfall […]
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Closest matches include affluence, alabaster, appearance, bed of roses, billiard table.
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