Similar words: velvet, shelve, delve, elves, twelve, shelves, yourselves, ourselves. Meaning: ['velvɪtɪ] 
adj. 1. smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste 2. resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface.
adj. 1. smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste 2. resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface. (61) Flavors of plum compote, spice, green tea, and cocoa are the introduction to this wine as velvety, unctuous tannins blend with a juicy, naturally balanced mid-palate of complex structure.
(62) In the velvety huskiness of her voice, love vibrated like a note of unknown music.
(63) Blue - and - white eyespots adorn the velvety black wings of a butterfly on a Polynesian island.
(64) Singer Lena Horne, who broke racial barriers as a Hollywood and Broadway star famed for her velvety rendition of "Stormy Weather, " has died at age 92.