English Dictionary

velvet

/ˈvɛlvɪt/

adj

Made of velvet. / Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety. / (politics) Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.

She wore a beautiful velvet dress to the party.

意味（1）

Made of velvet.

意味（2）

Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.

The fawn then rose up, and creeping gently about the room, touched the cheeks or hands of the slumbering inmates with its velvet tongue, but so softly that none were awakened.

意味（3）

(politics) Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.

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'.