plushen
English edit
Etymology edit
From plush + -en (“made of”).
Adjective edit
plushen (comparative more plushen, superlative most plushen)
- (chiefly poetic) Made of, or having the qualities of plush; (by extension) soft; velvety
- 1898, Junius Lackland Hempstead, Musings of Morn, page 97:
- The faded rose in its plushen case
Was the ghost of each vanished year, […]
- 1913, Samuel Henry Marcus, The Passing Singer and Other Poems, page 113:
- Whence throbbings hale
Of tireless deeds of toil
'Neath walls that pale
The day, or from the plushen soil, […]
- 1918, Oregon Voter: Magazine of Citizenship--for Busy Men and Women:
- We'd think that jay would can the Tam,
And eke the plushen breeches, […]
- 2013, Cledith Cassidy Tolbert, A Mother's Hands, page 89:
- O, Life, pack up your plushen ploys — I'll forfeit all for my four boys!