English Dictionary

velvet

/ˈvɛlvɪt/

verb

To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture. / (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying. / To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.

She velvets the fabric to give it a luxurious feel.

意味（1）

To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.

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

意味（2）

(cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.

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.

意味（3）

To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.

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

意味（4）

(figuratively, transitive) To soften; to mitigate.

She spoke very gently, full of compassion for the boy, velveting her reproach for me.

意味（5）

(of a cat's claws) to retract.