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Velveteen is a cloth made to look like velvet but woven from cotton, with a shorter, denser, less shiny surface — and a much smaller price. Real velvet was traditionally silk; velveteen was how ordinary families got the look. It has no stretch, unlike velour. You meet it most in children's clothes, in soft toys, in old-fashioned jackets and in curtains, and it has a slightly , nineteenth-century feeling. For most English readers the word arrives attached to one book: The Velveteen Rabbit, a famous 1922 children's story about a toy rabbit that becomes real because a child loves it — so the word can quietly carry ideas of childhood, worn toys, and something humble that turns out to matter. It is a fairly rare word in everyday speech now; you are more likely to read it than hear it. Uncountable as a noun, and common in front of another noun: a velveteen jacket.
棉絨、平絨(棉做的仿絲絨布,比絲絨便宜,沒有彈性)
組成velvet + -een. The ending -een is an old way of making the name of a cloth or an imitation of one, so velveteen is literally 'velvet-ish stuff'. Through velvet it goes back to Latin villus, 'shaggy hair'.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
velveteennoun/ˈvɛlvətiːn/
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A cotton fabric with a short pile, resembling velvet.
- […] I'm trying to build a story that not only unlocks the velveteen secrets of her teenager's heart, but also contains action, development, along with—God help me—some imitation of meaning.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。