plushen

adj

plushen

adj

Etymology From plush + -en (“made of”).

1

Poetic Made of, or having the qualities of plush; (by extension) soft; velvety

  • The faded rose in its plushen case Was the ghost of each vanished year, […]1898, Junius Lackland Hempstead, Musings of Morn, page 97:
  • Whence throbbings hale Of tireless deeds of toil 'Neath walls that pale The day, or from the plushen soil, […]1913, Samuel Henry Marcus, The Passing Singer and Other Poems, page 113:
2 more examples
  • We'd think that jay would can the Tam, And eke the plushen breeches, […]1918, Oregon Voter: Magazine of Citizenship--for Busy Men and Women:
  • O, Life, pack up your plushen ploys — I'll forfeit all for my four boys!2013, Cledith Cassidy Tolbert, A Mother's Hands, page 89:

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