plush
noun/plʌʃ/
/plʌʃ/
[uncountable]- a type of silk or cotton cloth with a thick soft surface made of a mass of threads
- red plush armchairs
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPlush is used before these nouns:- armchair
- carpet
- chair
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from obsolete French pluche, contraction of peluche, from Old French peluchier ‘to pluck’, based on Latin pilus ‘hair’. The sense ‘luxurious’ dates from the 1920s.Want to learn more?
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