velours
See also: Velours
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]velours
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French velor, an alteration of velos, either from velu (“hairy”) + -os (“-ous”), or a borrowing from Old Occitan velos; either way, from Latin villus. Cognate with English velvet and a doublet of villeux.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]velours m (plural velours)
- velvet
- (Réunion) Synonym of héliotrope argenté (“velvetleaf soldierbush”) (Heliotropium arboreum)[1]
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Dominique Martiré (2021) Faune et flore de La Réunion, Paris: Delachaux et Niestlé, →ISBN, p. 112 (as Heliotropium foertherianum Diane & Hilger).
Further reading
[edit]- “velours” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “velours”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “velours”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]velours m pl
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- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Old Occitan
- French terms derived from Latin
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