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Plush

adjective

Characterized by extravagance and profusion. Synonyms: lavish, lucullan, lush, plushy. "A lucullan feast"

noun

A fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet.

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"Plush" Quotes from Famous Books

... the antimacassars, Or sunk in a sofa of plush? Did an Angelican bishop forget them, And leave them behind in the ...

— The New Morning - Poems • Alfred Noyes

... an adapted continuation of a medieval idea. On the raised dais under an unsanitary and dusty canopy of green plush sits the judge; instead of a sceptre he holds the gavel. This gavel, by the way, is falling more and more into disuse. As a symbol of authority, a little wooden hammer has become a trifle ludicrous. ...

— The Man in Court • Frederic DeWitt Wells

... home through Palmer Street, on which stood the little brick church—the street said to be occasionally haunted by Governor Anthony Palmer's phantom coach and four, which was pursued by his twenty-one children in plush breeches and Panama hats, crying, "Water lots! water fronts! To ...

— Bohemian Days - Three American Tales • Geo. Alfred Townsend

... be very nice, if we could get a good pattern. And as she wanted to begin immediately, we looked in a box where I keep all sorts of remnants, and found a piece of red plush, which Annie declared "would be just the loveliest ...

— Harper's Young People, May 4, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... considered to weigh a pound and his foot two pounds both in buying and selling. But the same story is told of other Indian traders. The Indians were fond of finery and ornaments. Among the articles sent by Samuel Blodget in 1764 were nine pairs of green, scarlet and blue plush breeches at a guinea each; one blue gold laced jacket and two scarlet gold laced jackets valued at L3 each; also spotted ermine jackets, ruffled shirts and three gold laced beaver hats (value of the latter L8 6s. 4d.) These may seem extravagant articles for the Indians yet their chiefs ...

— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond

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