velvet

samettinen

sametti A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
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Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
puhekieltä A female chinchilla; a sow.
puhekieltä The drug dextromethorphan.
To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
1834, Edward Price, Norway. Views of Wild Scenery: and Journal, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., Part I, p. 16, https://books.google.ca/books?id=c5ZDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

Penmachno mill is situate where a stream has furrowed a deep channel, and velveted the rocks with the richest mosses (..).

Last week the scaffolds were up in the hall once more. This time the back wall is to be velveted in absorbent fiber glass (..)

Blanching cut and specially marinated chicken in oil or water prior to stir-frying is a technique common to Chinese restaurant kitchens. The 20-second bath tenderizes the chicken remarkably, hence the process has been dubbed "velveting" in English. Velveted chicken is half-cooked, will not stick to the pan, and needs almost no oil when stir-fried.

Reacting to painkillers when velveted, Sovereign II was too sick to grow antlers last year, but has since recovered.

The cowslip's velvet head.

What at the time of the initial agreement of Yeltsin, Shushkevich and Kravchuk to join together in a new 'Commonwealth of Independent States' had seemed like a reconstitution of the lands of ancient Rus, quickly turned out to be, in the words of the leading Russian-Ukrainian reformer Aleksandr Tsipko, merely a 'velvet disintegration'.

The disintegration always took place within internal borders, whether it was velvet, as in the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, or bloody, like Yugoslavia&39;s still unfinished break-up.

If the Sudanese can resolve the final steps in a velvet divorce and move in a more democratic direction, that will serve as a heartening "ideal model of change" (..)

“I was once invited to give a speech about the attempt to topple Iran's political system through a ‘velvet revolution,’ ” says Etaat in the debate, “but we all know that ‘velvet revolutions’ always occur in dictatorships.”

There is such a thing as a velvet divorce: if Canada or Belgium were to split apart, the consequences would be unfortunate but manageable.