velour

English

velour

Etymology

Borrowed from French velours (“velvet”).

Noun

velour (countable and uncountable, plural velours)

1. A knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser.

Translations

a knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser

• Bulgarian: велур (bg) m (velur)
• Finnish: veluuri (fi)
• French: velours (fr) m
• Galician: pana (gl) f
• German: Velours (de) n
• Hungarian: velúr (hu)
• Icelandic: velúr n
• Irish: veiliúr m
• Latvian: plīšs (lv) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: velur m or n

  Nynorsk: velur m or n

• Polish: welur (pl) m
• Portuguese: velour m
• Romanian: velur (ro) n
• Russian: велю́р (ru) m (veljúr)
• Spanish: velour m, velvetón m, velúr m
• Swedish: velour (sv) c
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Louvre, louver, louvre

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French velours.

Noun

velour m (plural velours)

1. velour (a knit fabric similar to velvet)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French velours.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈluɾ/ [beˈluɾ]
• Rhymes: -uɾ

Noun

velour m (plural velours or velour)

1. velour

Swedish

Noun

velour c

1. velour

Declension

Declension of velour
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	velour	velouren	—	—
Genitive	velours	velourens	—	—

See also

• plysch (“plush”)

References

• velour in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• velour in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• velour in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)