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PLUSH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plush mean?
• PLUSH (noun)
The noun PLUSH has 1 sense:
1. a fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet
Familiarity information: PLUSH used as a noun is very rare.
• PLUSH (adjective)
The adjective PLUSH has 1 sense:
1. characterized by extravagance and profusion
Familiarity information: PLUSH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("plush" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Derivation:
plushy ((of textures) resembling plush)
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: plushest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by extravagance and profusion
Synonyms:
lavish; lucullan; plush; plushy
Context example:
a lucullan feast
Similar:
rich (suggestive of or characterized by great expense)
Context examples
As you observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most useful material for showing traces.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little purple plush at the neck and sleeves.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And he said that I had nothing fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much as taken out of the drawer.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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