Definition of "velveted" in English

adjective

1. Covered with velvet; wearing velvet clothing.

   • 1653, François Rabelais, Pantagruel (1532), translated by Thomas Urquhart, in The Works of Rabelais, London: Chatto & Windus, 1873, Chapter 14, p. 33, https://archive.org/details/worksofrabelais00raberich " […] of hats, note that some are shorn, and others shaggy, some velveted, others covered with taffities, and others with satin […] "

2. Having a velvet-like surface; covered with a velvet-like material.

   • 1965, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856), translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling and Paul de Man, New York: Norton, 2005, p. 289, The tips of the trees were velveted with a pale brown dust, dotted irregularly here and there as though there had been a snowfall […]

verb

1. simple past and past participle of velvet