The mouse was a warm, velvety weight in my hand.

The crooner had a velvety voice that made the ladies swoon.

As he came down the huge velvety paws caught him as gently as a mother’s arms and set him (right way up, too) on the ground.

1964, Elie Wiesel, The Town Beyond the Wall (1962), translated by Stephen Becker, New York: Atheneum, 1964, p. 104,
Tangier was washed in a velvety bluish twilight.

By now it was dark, velvety dark with a moon, a darkness pinpricked by the lights from the landing place now drawing rapidly closer.

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