plush

• POS: Adjective, Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

plush, n. [F. pluche, peluche (cf. It. peluzzo), fr. L. pilus hair. See pile hair, and cf. Peruke.].

 A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.  Cowper.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

plush, n. & adj.
--n. cloth of silk or cotton etc., with a long soft nap.
--adj.
1 made of plush.
2 plushy.

Derivative

plushly adv. plushness n.

Etymology

obs. F pluche contr. f. peluche f. OF peluchier f. It. peluzzo dimin. of pelo f. L pilus hair

THESAURUS

plush

Babylonian, Corinthian, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, blubber, breeze, butter, classy, clay, costly, cottony, cushion, deluxe, dough, down, eiderdown, elaborate, elegant, extravagant, fancy, feather bed, feathers, fine, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, glorious, grand, grandiose, imposing, impressive, kapok, lavish, luscious, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, noble, opulent, palatial, pillow, plushy, posh, princely, proud, pudding, puff, putty, regal, rich, ritzy, rubber, satin, satinlike, satiny, sericeous, silk, silken, silklike, silky, soft as silk, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swansdown, swell, thistledown, velutinous, velvet, velvetlike, velvety, wax, wool, zephyr

ROGET THESAURUS

plush

Roughness

N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.