Color Names

Velvet Grey

Soft, grey, like the wrong side of velvet, where the plush is subtle.

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Velvet Grey is a cool grey.

It can be described as cool, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Velvet Grey

Velvet

Velvet is a type of woven fabric with a dense, even pile that gives it a distinctive soft feel. Historically, velvet was typically made from silk. Modern velvet can be made from silk, linen, cotton, wool, synthetic fibers, silk-cotton blends, or synthetic-natural fiber blends.

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Grey

Grey or gray is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a rain or storm cloud, of ash, and of lead.

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velvet

Noun

  1. A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
  2. Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.

Verb

  1. To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
  2. To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
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grey

Adjective

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
  2. Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).

Verb

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
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