Velours

Je préférerais m'asseoir sur un potiron et le posséder bien à moi que d'être à plusieurs sur un coussin de velours. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Realizing that his discovery could spawn a fastening system to compete with, if not replace, the zipper, he devised a way to reproduce the hooks and loops in woven nylon, and dubbed the result Velcro, from the French words velours and crochet. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Art de préparer et d'imprimer les étoffes en laines, suivi de l'art de fabriquer les pannes ou pelouches, les velours façon d'Utrecht ... ❋ Unknown (2006)

Note 3: Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, L'Art de préparer et d'imprimer les étoffes en laines, suivi de l'art de fabriquer les pannes ou pelouches, les velours façon d'Utrecht ... ❋ Unknown (2006)

“But the soft touch of a patte de velours will do it no harm.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

“She offers me no patte de velours; she is all form and reserve with me.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Avec les lambeaux je me ferai un manteau de velours ❋ Pinku-tk (2005)

The dress was of blue silk velours, French material, and was going to be very becoming. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She played before me the amiable; offered me patte de velours; caressed, flattered, fawned on me. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Another moment, and he moved forward once more, passing into a world of sky-candles and blue velours. ❋ Zelazny, Roger (1976)

It had been a great house, quiet and dignified, furnished with dark red velours drapes and thick semitransparent lace and a wealth of Victorian furniture. ❋ Van De Wetering, Janwillem (1976)

But some of the furniture was still there and the commissaris sat down on a chair upholstered in red velours, an old chair, a chair he had sat on before, but the mood had changed. ❋ Van De Wetering, Janwillem (1976)

Neil Gruen was encased in beige suede slacks and an orange velours pullover. ❋ Lathen, Emma, Pseud (1972)

Yet to Amaryllis it was perhaps the raffish green imitation-velours ❋ Oliver Fleming (N/A)

À l'origine, ce mot velours s'employait par opposition à cuir, parce que souvent le premier donnait l'idée d'une chose plus douce que le second. ❋ Harry Vincent Wann (N/A)

Whichever side of the question we may assume, as the most popular, or the most right, the feelings of so large and respectable a minority are to be consulted, that it behooves the critic or reviewer to move cautiously, and, imitating the actions of a certain feline household reformer, to show only the _patte de velours_. ❋ Various (N/A)

The present fashion does not go beyond a grey tweed lounge suit, with white spats and velours hat. ❋ Various (N/A)

There are linens of all prices, and cretonnes, both the inexpensive kind and the wonderful shadow ones; there are silks and velvets and velours, aurora cloth, cotton crêpe and arras cloth, and a thousand other beautiful stuffs that are cheap or medium-priced or expensive, whose names only the shopman knows, but which win our admiration from afar. ❋ Lucy Abbot Throop (N/A)