释义 |
ˈvelvetiness [f. velvety a.] The quality of resembling velvet in smoothness, etc. Also fig.
1882Good Literature 6 May 142 In America, where..black women have that happy Ethiopian velvetiness of cuticle. 1889M. E. Carter Mrs. Severn I. i. Prol. 10 The dense velvetiness of the furze. 1906Galsworthy Man of Property ii. iv. 167 The peculiar exasperation, velvetiness, and mockery, of which Bosinney's manner had been composed. |