velveteen

English

Etymology

From velvet +‎ -een.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛlvətiːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: vel‧ve‧teen

Noun

velveteen (countable and uncountable, plural velveteens)

1. A cotton fabric with a short pile, resembling velvet.
   • 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Forty-Minute Lunch […] ”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:

     […] I'm trying to build a story that not only unlocks the velveteen secrets of her teenager's heart, but also contains action, development, along with—God help me—some imitation of meaning.

Translations

cotton fabric with a short pile

• Bulgarian: памучно кадифе (pamučno kadife), бархет m (barhet)
• Catalan: vellutina
• Esperanto: veluro
• Finnish: puuvillasametti
• French: velours (fr) m
• German: Baumwollsamt m, Nickistoff m (colloquial)
• Ido: koton-veluro
• Irish: veilbhitín m
• Japanese: 別珍 (ja) (べっちん, ベッチン, becchin)
• Polish: welwet m
• Russian: вельве́т (ru) m (velʹvét), плис (ru) m (plis), манче́стер (ru) m (mančéster), манче́стер (ru) m (mančéstɛr)
• Spanish: pana (es) f, velludillo m