velvetry

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

"All their ribandry and gauzery — their silkery and velvetry — were draggled, and limp, and shapeless […]"
"And it was from behind those draped velvetries that the sounds came, a buzzing, as of conversation."
"Sitting around on sofas and velvetries with their flutes and their papers and their laughter."

From velvet + -ry.

velvetries (plural)

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