English Dictionary

velvet

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈvɛlvɪt/

形容詞

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

日本語の意味

ベルベット（天鵞絨）で作られた、またはその素材で作られていることを表す / ベルベットのように柔らかく、繊細な性質・状態を形容する / （政治的文脈で）暴力を伴わず、平和的な手法で実施された状況を示す

She draped a velvet shawl over her shoulders before stepping onto the stage.

彼女は舞台に上がる前にビロード製のショールを肩にかけた。

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'.

more velvet （ comparative ）

most velvet （ superlative ）