Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - plush
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Plush
plush
(plusher, plushest) 1. If you describe something as plush, you mean that it is very smart, comfortable, or expensive. ...a plush, four-storey, Georgian house in Mayfair. ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. Plush is a thick soft material like velvet, used especially for carpets and to cover furniture. All the seats were in red plush. N-UNCOUNT
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I. noun Etymology: Middle French peluche Date: 1594 a fabric with an even pile longer and less dense than velvet pile II. adjective Date: circa 1645 1. relating to, resembling, or made of ~ 2. a. notably luxurious b. rich, full the ~ sound of his saxophone playing a ~, ripe wine • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. cloth of silk or cotton etc., with a long soft nap. --adj. 1 made of plush. 2 plushy. Derivatives plushly adv. plushness n. Etymology: obs. F pluche contr. f. peluche f. OF peluchier f. It. peluzzo dimin. of pelo f. L pilus hair ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. плюш; плис 2. pl. плисовые штаны 3. плюшевый; плисовый 4. ам. разг. шикарный plush hotel —- шикарный отель ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) плюш; плис 2) pl. плисовые штаны 2. adj. 1) плюшевый; плисовый 2) amer.; coll. роскошный, шикарный ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~1 also plushy ~ adj informal expensive, comfortable, and of good quality (a plush hotel) ~2 n silk or cotton cloth with a surface like short fur (plush curtains) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- "soft fabric," 1594, from M.Fr. pluche "shag, plush," contraction of peluche "hairy fabric," from O.Fr. peluchier "to pluck" (the final process in weaving plush), from V.L. *piluccare "remove hair" (see pluck). The adj. meaning "swank, luxurious" is first attested 1927. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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